Engineer A Friendship Non-Justification Non-Reporting Violation
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/16#Engineer_A_Friendship_Non-Justification_Non-Reporting_Violation
Properties
Instance of
EngineerAFriendshipNonJustificationNonReportingViolation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#EngineerAFriendshipNonJustificationNonReportingViolation
Case context
Engineer A discovered through Engineer R's independent review that Engineer B had been signing and sealing structural drawings without competent review while impaired by a stroke, resulting in serious structural failures. Despite this knowledge, Engineer A chose not to report Engineer B to the State Board out of personal friendship and compassion.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.95
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to report Engineer B's impaired and unlawful engineering practice to the State Board notwithstanding their personal friendship, and his failure to do so constituted an ethical violation under NSPE II.1.f and III.7.
Temporal scope
Upon Engineer A's discovery of Engineer B's impaired practice and Engineer R's findings
Relationships
competesWith
Engineer A Impaired Practice State Board Reporting Obligation Instance, Engineer A Non-Aiding Unlawful Practice Post-Discovery Obligation Instance
Source Evidence
Source text
Because of their long friendship and consideration of Engineer B's impairment, Engineer A did not report Engineer B to the State Board.
Text references
Because of their long friendship and consideration of Engineer B's impairment, Engineer A did not report Engineer B to the State Board.
Even though Engineer A was a friend of Engineer B, their friendship was not an ethical justification for Engineer A to ignore or conceal Engineer B's violations.
It was unethical for Engineer A to not report Engineer B, in spite of the fact that Engineer A and Engineer B were friends.
TTL
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case16:Engineer_A_Friendship_Non-Justification_Non-Reporting_Violation a proeth:EngineerAFriendshipNonJustificationNonReportingViolation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Friendship Non-Justification Non-Reporting Violation" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case16:Engineer_A_Impaired_Practice_State_Board_Reporting_Obligation_Instance,
case16:Engineer_A_Non-Aiding_Unlawful_Practice_Post-Discovery_Obligation_Instance ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case16:Engineer_A_Friendship-Based_Non-Reporting_Rationalization,
case16:Engineer_A_Impaired_Licensee_Friendship_Non-Reporting ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A discovered through Engineer R's independent review that Engineer B had been signing and sealing structural drawings without competent review while impaired by a stroke, resulting in serious structural failures. Despite this knowledge, Engineer A chose not to report Engineer B to the State Board out of personal friendship and compassion." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case16:Compassionate_Peer_Reporting_Obligation_Invoked_For_Engineer_A,
case16:Public_Welfare_Paramount_Invoked_Against_Engineer_A_Non-Reporting ;
proeth:discoveredincase "16" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-25T12:02:21.309464+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "16" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-25T12:02:21.309464+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Compassionate Peer Reporting Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to report Engineer B's impaired and unlawful engineering practice to the State Board notwithstanding their personal friendship, and his failure to do so constituted an ethical violation under NSPE II.1.f and III.7." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Because of their long friendship and consideration of Engineer B's impairment, Engineer A did not report Engineer B to the State Board." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon Engineer A's discovery of Engineer B's impaired practice and Engineer R's findings" ;
proeth:textreferences "Because of their long friendship and consideration of Engineer B's impairment, Engineer A did not report Engineer B to the State Board.",
"Even though Engineer A was a friend of Engineer B, their friendship was not an ethical justification for Engineer A to ignore or conceal Engineer B's violations.",
"It was unethical for Engineer A to not report Engineer B, in spite of the fact that Engineer A and Engineer B were friends." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 16 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-25T12:12:21.728071"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 16 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
16
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-25T12:02:21.309464+00:00
First case
16
Generated
2026-02-25T12:02:21.309464+00:00
Attributed to
Case 16 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-25T12:12:21.728071
Generated by
ProEthica Case 16 Extraction