Engineer A Compassionate Peer Reporting Engineer
R · Role
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/16#Engineer_A_Compassionate_Peer_Reporting_Engineer
Definition
Engineer A, upon discovering Engineer B's impaired practice and the resulting structural failures, chose to confront Engineer B privately as a professional courtesy and personal friend, but ultimately did not report Engineer B to the State Board, raising questions about whether this satisfies his professional obligations.
Properties
Instance of
CompassionatePeerReportingEngineer
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#CompassionatePeerReportingEngineer
Attributes
| license | Professional Engineer |
| relationship_to_impaired_engineer | Long-time personal friend |
| action_taken | Private confrontation only; no board report filed |
Confidence
0.95
Importance
high
Relationships
| type | peer_friend |
| target | Engineer B Impaired Structural Design Engineer |
| type | reporting_obligation_toward |
| target | State Licensing Board |
Role category
public_responsibility
Relationships
Source Evidence
Source text
As a professional courtesy, and because he considered Engineer B a personal friend, Engineer A met privately with Engineer B and confronted him with the faulty design
Text references
As a professional courtesy, and because he considered Engineer B a personal friend, Engineer A met privately with Engineer B and confronted him with the faulty design
Because of their long friendship and consideration of Engineer B's impairment, Engineer A did not report Engineer B to the State Board
TTL
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@prefix proeth-core: <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
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case16:Engineer_A_Compassionate_Peer_Reporting_Engineer a proeth:CompassionatePeerReportingEngineer,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Compassionate Peer Reporting Engineer" ;
proeth-core:adheresToPrinciple case16:Compassionate_Peer_Reporting_Obligation_Invoked_For_Engineer_A,
case16:Public_Welfare_Paramount_Invoked_Against_Engineer_A_Non-Reporting ;
proeth-core:hasObligation case16:Engineer_A_Cooperative_Practice_Alternative_Identification_Instance,
case16:Engineer_A_Friendship_Non-Justification_Non-Reporting_Violation,
case16:Engineer_A_Impaired_Practice_State_Board_Reporting_Obligation_Instance,
case16:Engineer_A_Non-Aiding_Unlawful_Practice_Post-Discovery_Obligation_Instance ;
proeth:attributes "{'license': 'Professional Engineer', 'relationship_to_impaired_engineer': 'Long-time personal friend', 'action_taken': 'Private confrontation only; no board report filed'}" ;
proeth:caseinvolvement "Engineer A, upon discovering Engineer B's impaired practice and the resulting structural failures, chose to confront Engineer B privately as a professional courtesy and personal friend, but ultimately did not report Engineer B to the State Board, raising questions about whether this satisfies his professional obligations." ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Role" ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "16" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "1" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-25T04:09:35.914959+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "16" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-25T04:09:35.914959+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:relationships "{'type': 'peer_friend', 'target': 'Engineer B Impaired Structural Design Engineer'}",
"{'type': 'reporting_obligation_toward', 'target': 'State Licensing Board'}" ;
proeth:rolecategory "public_responsibility" ;
proeth:roleclass "Compassionate Peer Reporting Engineer" ;
proeth:sourcetext "As a professional courtesy, and because he considered Engineer B a personal friend, Engineer A met privately with Engineer B and confronted him with the faulty design" ;
proeth:textreferences "As a professional courtesy, and because he considered Engineer B a personal friend, Engineer A met privately with Engineer B and confronted him with the faulty design",
"Because of their long friendship and consideration of Engineer B's impairment, Engineer A did not report Engineer B to the State Board" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 16 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-25T12:12:21.731834"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 16 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
16
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-25T04:09:35.914959+00:00
First case
16
Generated
2026-02-25T04:09:35.914959+00:00
Attributed to
Case 16 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-25T12:12:21.731834
Generated by
ProEthica Case 16 Extraction