DP4
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http://proethica.org/ontology/case/150#DP4
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Parent
Decision Point Id
DP4
Decision Question
Should Engineer A treat his faithful agent obligation to MedTech as still operative and constraining — requiring further internal escalation before any external threat — or should he treat the public safety paramount principle as having already overridden that obligation given one month of inaction and hundreds of deployed devices?
Focus
Engineer A must resolve the tension between his faithful agent obligation to MedTech — which persists while internal mechanisms remain unexhausted — and his public safety paramount obligation triggered by the growing circulation of hundreds of potentially defective infant respirators, determining at what point the latter overrides the former.
Option1
Treat the faithful agent obligation as still operative because internal mechanisms — including senior engineering leadership, a safety committee, and formal recourse channels — have not been genuinely exhausted, and pursue those pathways urgently before issuing any external reporting threat, recognizing that public safety ultimately prevails but only after the employer has been given a complete opportunity to self-correct.
Option2
Treat one month of inaction combined with hundreds of deployed infant respirators as sufficient to discharge the faithful agent obligation and activate the public safety paramount principle, issuing the conditional external reporting threat on the grounds that the employer has had a reasonable opportunity to self-correct and has failed to do so.
Option3
Re-escalate to the manager with a formal written notice setting a specific short deadline — calibrated to the infant vulnerability and device circulation rate — for meaningful corrective action, explicitly stating that failure to meet the deadline will result in external regulatory reporting, thereby honoring the faithful agent obligation while signaling the imminent override of that obligation by the public safety paramount principle.
Role Label
Engineer A
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2026-03-08 16:29
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ProEthica Case 150 Extraction