Engineer F Ethics Code Supersession of Legalistic Minimum Employment Disclosure
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/148#Engineer_F_Ethics_Code_Supersession_of_Legalistic_Minimum_Employment_Disclosure
Properties
Instance of
EthicsCodeSupersessionofLegalMinimumSafetyObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#EthicsCodeSupersessionofLegalMinimumSafetyObligation
Case context
Engineer F relied on the literal scope of the employment application question (limited to PE license discipline) to justify not disclosing the contractor license revocation. The Board held that this legalistic rationale was ethically insufficient and that the Code demands a higher standard than the minimum required by the literal question.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.87
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer F
Obligation statement
Engineer F was obligated to recognize that satisfying the literal minimum of the employment application question did not exhaust his ethical obligations under the NSPE Code, which required a higher standard of candor and disclosure than the legalistic minimum he relied upon.
Temporal scope
At the time of completing the employment application
Relationships
Source Evidence
Source text
While Engineer F could claim a legalistic rationale for being evasive and not responding to the full implications of the question, as a matter of ethics, Engineer F's conduct was failing.
Text references
Engineering ethics is not about performing the minimum amount required but, instead, ought to be about going the extra mile to exceed the employer or clients requirements.
While Engineer F could claim a legalistic rationale for being evasive and not responding to the full implications of the question, as a matter of ethics, Engineer F's conduct was failing.
TTL
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case148:Engineer_F_Ethics_Code_Supersession_of_Legalistic_Minimum_Employment_Disclosure a proeth:EthicsCodeSupersessionofLegalMinimumSafetyObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer F Ethics Code Supersession of Legalistic Minimum Employment Disclosure" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case148:Engineer_F_Adjudicated_Misconduct_Employment_Application_Disclosure_Failure ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case148:Engineer_F_Adjudicated_Misconduct_Employment_Application_Disclosure_Failure ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer F relied on the literal scope of the employment application question (limited to PE license discipline) to justify not disclosing the contractor license revocation. The Board held that this legalistic rationale was ethically insufficient and that the Code demands a higher standard than the minimum required by the literal question." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.87" ;
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proeth:discoveredincase "148" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
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proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer F" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Ethics Code Supersession of Legal Minimum Safety Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer F was obligated to recognize that satisfying the literal minimum of the employment application question did not exhaust his ethical obligations under the NSPE Code, which required a higher standard of candor and disclosure than the legalistic minimum he relied upon." ;
proeth:sourcetext "While Engineer F could claim a legalistic rationale for being evasive and not responding to the full implications of the question, as a matter of ethics, Engineer F's conduct was failing." ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the time of completing the employment application" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineering ethics is not about performing the minimum amount required but, instead, ought to be about going the extra mile to exceed the employer or clients requirements.",
"While Engineer F could claim a legalistic rationale for being evasive and not responding to the full implications of the question, as a matter of ethics, Engineer F's conduct was failing." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 148 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T23:11:08.580980"^^xsd:dateTime ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
148
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T23:02:49.838777+00:00
First case
148
Generated
2026-02-28T23:02:49.838777+00:00
Attributed to
Case 148 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T23:11:08.580980
Generated by
ProEthica Case 148 Extraction