Going-Along Prohibition Applied to Company B Engineers After Employer Override
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/160#Going-Along_Prohibition_Applied_to_Company_B_Engineers_After_Employer_Override
Properties
Instance of
Going-AlongProhibitionWhenSafetyConcernsAreReal
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Going-AlongProhibitionWhenSafetyConcernsAreReal
Applied to
Decision whether to proceed with production after employer instruction overriding safety objections
Balancing with
Employment Loss Acceptance as Cost of Public Safety Whistleblowing
Loyalty
Concrete expression
After Company B officials instructed engineers to proceed following Company A's dismissal of safety concerns, Company B engineers faced the prohibition against passively going along with production despite their unresolved, genuine safety concerns about life endangerment.
Confidence
0.95
Importance
high
Interpretation
Merely having raised the concern to officials does not discharge the obligation; passive continuation in the face of a known, unresolved life-safety risk constitutes independent ethical non-compliance regardless of the employer instruction received.
Invoked by
Company B Engineers Safety-Discovering Manufacturing Reviewers
Tension resolution
The going-along prohibition requires Company B engineers to take further action — insistence, refusal, or external escalation — rather than treating the employer's instruction as ethical resolution.
Source Evidence
Source text
The officials of Company 'B' instructed its engineers to proceed with the work.
Text references
The officials of Company 'B' instructed its engineers to proceed with the work.
the equipment, if built according to the original plans and specifications, might endanger the lives of persons in proximity to it
TTL
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owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Going-Along Prohibition Applied to Company B Engineers After Employer Override" ;
proeth:appliedto "Decision whether to proceed with production after employer instruction overriding safety objections" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Employment Loss Acceptance as Cost of Public Safety Whistleblowing",
"Loyalty" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "After Company B officials instructed engineers to proceed following Company A's dismissal of safety concerns, Company B engineers faced the prohibition against passively going along with production despite their unresolved, genuine safety concerns about life endangerment." ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "160" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T14:30:10.564580+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "160" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T14:30:10.564580+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "Merely having raised the concern to officials does not discharge the obligation; passive continuation in the face of a known, unresolved life-safety risk constitutes independent ethical non-compliance regardless of the employer instruction received." ;
proeth:invokedby "Company B Engineers Safety-Discovering Manufacturing Reviewers" ;
proeth:principleclass "Going-Along Prohibition When Safety Concerns Are Real" ;
proeth:sourcetext "The officials of Company 'B' instructed its engineers to proceed with the work." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The going-along prohibition requires Company B engineers to take further action — insistence, refusal, or external escalation — rather than treating the employer's instruction as ethical resolution." ;
proeth:textreferences "The officials of Company 'B' instructed its engineers to proceed with the work.",
"the equipment, if built according to the original plans and specifications, might endanger the lives of persons in proximity to it" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 160 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T14:53:00.982483"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 160 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
160
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-02T14:30:10.564580+00:00
First case
160
Generated
2026-03-02T14:30:10.564580+00:00
Attributed to
Case 160 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T14:53:00.982483
Generated by
ProEthica Case 160 Extraction