Whistleblowing Personal Conscience Right in Defense Expenditure Dispute

@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 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:Whistleblowing_Personal_Conscience_Right_in_Defense_Expenditure_Dispute a proeth:WhistleblowingasPersonalConscienceRightWithoutMandatoryDutyPrinciple, owl:NamedIndividual ; rdfs:label "Whistleblowing Personal Conscience Right in Defense Expenditure Dispute" ; proeth:appliedto "Decision whether to continue internal campaign against management override", "Decision whether to make defense expenditure concerns a matter of public discussion" ; proeth:balancingwith "Employment Loss Acceptance as Cost of Public Safety Whistleblowing", "Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits", "Mandatory Withdrawal and Reporting Threshold Confined to Public Health Safety and Welfare Endangerment" ; proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ; proeth:concreteexpression "The Board determined that Engineer A's ethical right to continue internal advocacy or to blow the whistle publicly regarding unjustified defense expenditure was a matter of personal conscience rather than a mandatory professional obligation, because the concern did not rise to the level of endangerment of public health, safety, and welfare." ; proeth:confidence "0.95" ; proeth:discoveredincase "157" ; proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ; proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T19:30:30.931072+00:00" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "157" ; proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T19:30:30.931072+00:00" ; proeth:importance "high" ; proeth:interpretation "When the engineer's concern involves unsatisfactory plans and unjustified public expenditure — but not public health or safety endangerment — the ethics code preserves the right to blow the whistle without imposing a mandatory duty to do so" ; proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Defense Industry Whistleblower Engineer", "Objecting Engineers Public Expenditure Whistleblower" ; proeth:principleclass "Whistleblowing as Personal Conscience Right Without Mandatory Duty Principle" ; 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:tensionresolution "The personal conscience right was affirmed; the mandatory duty was withheld because the endangerment threshold was not met; the engineer could choose to act but was not compelled to do so" ; proeth:textreferences "The Code only requires that the engineer withdraw from a project and report to proper authorities when the circumstances involve endangerment of the public health, safety, and welfare.", "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 "2026-03-01T19:40:53.891270"^^xsd:dateTime ; prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 157 Extraction" .