Public Welfare Paramount Invoked Against Engineer A Non-Reporting
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/16#Public_Welfare_Paramount_Invoked_Against_Engineer_A_Non-Reporting
Properties
Instance of
Applied to
Engineer A's decision not to report Engineer B to State Board
Balancing with
Compassionate Peer Reporting Obligation
Personal friendship loyalty
Concrete expression
Engineer A's decision not to report Engineer B to the State Board, despite knowing of impaired practice that caused structural failure, violated the paramount obligation to protect public welfare over personal friendship
Confidence
0.97
Importance
high
Interpretation
Public welfare paramount requires reporting known violations regardless of personal friendship; the friendship relationship affects the manner of reporting but not the obligation to report
Invoked by
Engineer A Compassionate Peer Reporting Engineer
Tension resolution
Public welfare obligation overrides friendship loyalty; friendship may inform the manner of reporting (cooperative, compassionate) but cannot justify non-reporting
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
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.
the ethics code does not permit engineers to turn a blind eye to the unethical practice of engineering
TTL
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case16:Public_Welfare_Paramount_Invoked_Against_Engineer_A_Non-Reporting a proeth:PublicWelfareParamount,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Public Welfare Paramount Invoked Against Engineer A Non-Reporting" ;
proeth:appliedto "Engineer A's decision not to report Engineer B to State Board" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Compassionate Peer Reporting Obligation",
"Personal friendship loyalty" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A's decision not to report Engineer B to the State Board, despite knowing of impaired practice that caused structural failure, violated the paramount obligation to protect public welfare over personal friendship" ;
proeth:confidence "0.97" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "16" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-25T11:58:37.875161+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "16" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-25T11:58:37.875161+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "Public welfare paramount requires reporting known violations regardless of personal friendship; the friendship relationship affects the manner of reporting but not the obligation to report" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Compassionate Peer Reporting Engineer" ;
proeth:principleclass "Public Welfare Paramount" ;
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:tensionresolution "Public welfare obligation overrides friendship loyalty; friendship may inform the manner of reporting (cooperative, compassionate) but cannot justify non-reporting" ;
proeth:textreferences "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.",
"the ethics code does not permit engineers to turn a blind eye to the unethical practice of engineering" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 16 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-25T12:12:21.726651"^^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
2026-02-25T11:58:37.875161+00:00
First case
16
Generated
2026-02-25T11:58:37.875161+00:00
Attributed to
Case 16 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-25T12:12:21.726651
Generated by
ProEthica Case 16 Extraction