Roe Cross-Cultural Consistent Ethical Compass
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/167#Roe_Cross-Cultural_Consistent_Ethical_Compass
Properties
Instance of
Cross-CulturalEngineeringPracticeConsistentEthicalCompassObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Cross-CulturalEngineeringPracticeConsistentEthicalCompassObligation
Case context
Roe's firm has done overseas assignments in various parts of the world, and the pressure to adopt locally-adapted ethics in the foreign country represents precisely the situational ethics that the consistent ethical compass obligation prohibits.
Compliance status
unclear
Confidence
0.95
Importance
high
Obligated party
Richard Roe, P.E.
Obligation statement
Roe is obligated to maintain a consistent ethical compass across his firm's international practice, applying the same fundamental ethical principles in the foreign country as he would apply in domestic US practice, regardless of the cultural context or prevailing norms of the host country.
Temporal scope
Throughout all international engineering practice
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Roe When-in-Rome Situational Ethics Argument
prevailsOver
Roe Situational Ethics Non-Practice International
Source Evidence
Source text
Richard Roe, P.E., is president and chief executive officer of an engineering firm which has done overseas assignments in various parts of the world.
Text references
Richard Roe, P.E., is president and chief executive officer of an engineering firm which has done overseas assignments in various parts of the world.
it is established practice for those awarded contracts to make personal gifts to the governmental officials who are authorized to award the contracts, and that such practice is legal in that country.
TTL
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case167:Roe_Cross-Cultural_Consistent_Ethical_Compass a proeth:Cross-CulturalEngineeringPracticeConsistentEthicalCompassObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Roe Cross-Cultural Consistent Ethical Compass" ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case167:Roe_When-in-Rome_Situational_Ethics_Argument ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case167:Roe_Situational_Ethics_Non-Practice_International ;
proeth:casecontext "Roe's firm has done overseas assignments in various parts of the world, and the pressure to adopt locally-adapted ethics in the foreign country represents precisely the situational ethics that the consistent ethical compass obligation prohibits." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unclear" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case167:Situational_Ethics_Rejection_Invoked_Against_Geographic_Context_Defense,
case167:Situational_Ethics_Rejection_in_Foreign_Gift-Giving_Context ;
proeth:discoveredincase "167" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T10:10:36.445176+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "167" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T10:10:36.445176+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Richard Roe, P.E." ;
proeth:obligationclass "Cross-Cultural Engineering Practice Consistent Ethical Compass Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Roe is obligated to maintain a consistent ethical compass across his firm's international practice, applying the same fundamental ethical principles in the foreign country as he would apply in domestic US practice, regardless of the cultural context or prevailing norms of the host country." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Richard Roe, P.E., is president and chief executive officer of an engineering firm which has done overseas assignments in various parts of the world." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout all international engineering practice" ;
proeth:textreferences "Richard Roe, P.E., is president and chief executive officer of an engineering firm which has done overseas assignments in various parts of the world.",
"it is established practice for those awarded contracts to make personal gifts to the governmental officials who are authorized to award the contracts, and that such practice is legal in that country." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 167 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T10:28:27.332050"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 167 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
167
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-02T10:10:36.445176+00:00
First case
167
Generated
2026-03-02T10:10:36.445176+00:00
Attributed to
Case 167 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T10:28:27.332050
Generated by
ProEthica Case 167 Extraction