Non-Safety Public Funds Whistleblowing Personal Conscience Right Engineer A

@prefix case157: <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/157#> . @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> . @prefix proeth: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#> . @prefix proeth-core: <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#> . @prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> . @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . @prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> . case157:Non-Safety_Public_Funds_Whistleblowing_Personal_Conscience_Right_Engineer_A a proeth:Non-Public-SafetyWhistleblowingPersonalConscienceRightRecognitionObligation, owl:NamedIndividual ; rdfs:label "Non-Safety Public Funds Whistleblowing Personal Conscience Right Engineer A" ; proeth-core:competesWith case157:Employment_Loss_Acceptance_Mandatory_Cost_Public_Safety_Whistleblowing_Engineer_A_Probation_Threat, case157:Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Engineer_A_Subcontractor_Review_Role, case157:Mandatory_Withdrawal_Threshold_Non-Application_Engineer_A_Defense_Expenditure_Case ; proeth-core:defeasibleUnder <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/157#Whistleblower_Employment_Jeopardy_—_Defense_Procurement_Dissent> ; proeth-core:prevailsOver case157:Employment_Loss_Acceptance_Mandatory_Cost_Public_Safety_Whistleblowing_Engineer_A_Probation_Threat ; proeth:casecontext "Engineer A continued to insist on subcontractor specification compliance after management rejected his memoranda, and sought an ethics review; the Board evaluated whether this constituted a mandatory or conscience-based obligation." ; proeth:compliancestatus "met" ; proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ; proeth:confidence "0.91" ; proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case157:Whistleblowing_Personal_Conscience_Right_in_Defense_Expenditure_Dispute ; proeth:discoveredincase "157" ; proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ; proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T19:32:32.246984+00:00" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "157" ; proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T19:32:32.246984+00:00" ; proeth:importance "high" ; proeth:obligatedparty "NSPE Board of Ethical Review; Engineer A" ; proeth:obligationclass "Non-Public-Safety Whistleblowing Personal Conscience Right Recognition Obligation" ; proeth:obligationstatement "The Board was obligated to recognize — and Engineer A was entitled to understand — that continued internal advocacy and external whistleblowing regarding unjustified defense expenditure, after management rejection, constituted a matter of personal conscience and ethical right rather than a mandatory professional duty." ; proeth:sourcetext "we feel that the ethical duty or right of the engineer becomes a matter of personal conscience, but we are not willing to make a blanket statement that there is an ethical duty in these kinds of situations for the engineer to continue his campaign within the company, and make the issue one for public discussion." ; proeth:temporalscope "After management's rejection of Engineer A's specification compliance memoranda" ; proeth:textreferences "we feel that the ethical duty or right of the engineer becomes a matter of personal conscience, but we are not willing to make a blanket statement that there is an ethical duty in these kinds of situations for the engineer to continue his campaign within the company, and make the issue one for public discussion." ; proeth:wasattributedto "Case 157 Extraction" ; prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T19:40:53.893063"^^xsd:dateTime ; prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 157 Extraction" .