Non-Self-Serving Advisory Obligation Violated By John Doe County Engineer
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/143#Non-Self-Serving_Advisory_Obligation_Violated_By_John_Doe_County_Engineer
Properties
Instance of
Non-Self-ServingAdvisoryObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Non-Self-ServingAdvisoryObligation
Applied to
County engineer recommendation to planning board on privately-designed subdivision plans
Balancing with
Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits
Concrete expression
Doe's recommendation as county engineer to approve the subdivision plans was structurally self-serving, as approval advanced his private commercial interest in the success of his consulting design work — making objective, client-interest-first advisory performance impossible
Confidence
0.92
Importance
high
Interpretation
The county engineer's advisory recommendation must serve the county's public interest; when the recommending engineer financially benefits from a favorable recommendation, the advisory function is corrupted regardless of whether the recommendation was technically sound
Invoked by
John Doe County Engineer Planning Board Member
Tension resolution
The faithful agent obligation to the county as public client required Doe to provide objective advice; his private financial interest in the design commission made such objectivity structurally unattainable, establishing the non-self-serving advisory violation
Source Evidence
Source text
as county engineer recommended approval of his plans to the county planning board
Text references
He also engages in part-time consulting practice
as county engineer recommended approval of his plans to the county planning board
TTL
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proeth:sourcetext "as county engineer recommended approval of his plans to the county planning board" ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
143
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-02T13:36:36.769527+00:00
First case
143
Generated
2026-03-02T13:36:36.769527+00:00
Attributed to
Case 143 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T13:52:09.583285
Generated by
ProEthica Case 143 Extraction