Roe Firm Situational Ethics Non-Practice Foreign Context
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/167#Roe_Firm_Situational_Ethics_Non-Practice_Foreign_Context
Properties
Instance of
SituationalEthicsNon-PracticeinInternationalEngineeringObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#SituationalEthicsNon-PracticeinInternationalEngineeringObligation
Case context
NSPE BER rejection of the geographic/cultural context defense; the Board held that the flat prohibition in Section 11b applies to foreign work regardless of local laws and customs.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.95
Importance
high
Obligated party
Richard Roe / US Engineering Firm Seeking Foreign Government Contract
Obligation statement
Roe's firm was obligated to apply the same ethical standard in the foreign country as it would domestically, refusing to adopt a geographically variable ethics standard that permits gift-giving abroad while prohibiting it at home.
Temporal scope
Throughout the foreign contract negotiation and procurement process
Relationships
competesWith
NSPE BER When-in-Rome Rescission Ethics Erosion Resistance, Roe Firm Foreign Official Corrupt Payment Prohibition Violation
defeasibleUnder
Roe When-in-Rome Situational Ethics Argument
derivedFromPrinciple
Situational Ethics Rejection in Foreign Gift-Giving Context
Source Evidence
Source text
The basic issue remaining is whether the flat prohibition in Section 11b applies to work in a foreign country where the laws and customs permit the gifts to government officials.
Text references
Even though the practice may be legal and accepted in the foreign country, and even though some might argue on pragmatic grounds that United State commercial companies should 'go along' to protect the jobs of employees in this country, we cannot accept it for professional services.
The basic issue remaining is whether the flat prohibition in Section 11b applies to work in a foreign country where the laws and customs permit the gifts to government officials.
TTL
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case167:Roe_Firm_Situational_Ethics_Non-Practice_Foreign_Context a proeth:SituationalEthicsNon-PracticeinInternationalEngineeringObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Roe Firm Situational Ethics Non-Practice Foreign Context" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case167:NSPE_BER_When-in-Rome_Rescission_Ethics_Erosion_Resistance,
case167:Roe_Firm_Foreign_Official_Corrupt_Payment_Prohibition_Violation ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case167:Roe_When-in-Rome_Situational_Ethics_Argument ;
proeth:casecontext "NSPE BER rejection of the geographic/cultural context defense; the Board held that the flat prohibition in Section 11b applies to foreign work regardless of local laws and customs." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case167:Situational_Ethics_Rejection_in_Foreign_Gift-Giving_Context ;
proeth:discoveredincase "167" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T10:18:18.218286+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "167" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T10:18:18.218286+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Richard Roe / US Engineering Firm Seeking Foreign Government Contract" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Situational Ethics Non-Practice in International Engineering Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Roe's firm was obligated to apply the same ethical standard in the foreign country as it would domestically, refusing to adopt a geographically variable ethics standard that permits gift-giving abroad while prohibiting it at home." ;
proeth:sourcetext "The basic issue remaining is whether the flat prohibition in Section 11b applies to work in a foreign country where the laws and customs permit the gifts to government officials." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout the foreign contract negotiation and procurement process" ;
proeth:textreferences "Even though the practice may be legal and accepted in the foreign country, and even though some might argue on pragmatic grounds that United State commercial companies should 'go along' to protect the jobs of employees in this country, we cannot accept it for professional services.",
"The basic issue remaining is whether the flat prohibition in Section 11b applies to work in a foreign country where the laws and customs permit the gifts to government officials." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 167 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T10:28:27.338217"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 167 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
167
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-02T10:18:18.218286+00:00
First case
167
Generated
2026-03-02T10:18:18.218286+00:00
Attributed to
Case 167 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T10:28:27.338217
Generated by
ProEthica Case 167 Extraction