Roe Situational Ethics Non-Practice International
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/167#Roe_Situational_Ethics_Non-Practice_International
Properties
Instance of
SituationalEthicsNon-PracticeinInternationalEngineeringObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#SituationalEthicsNon-PracticeinInternationalEngineeringObligation
Case context
Roe is operating in a foreign country where gift-giving to contract-awarding officials is described as an established and legal local practice, creating pressure to adopt a locally-adapted ethical standard.
Compliance status
unclear
Confidence
0.96
Importance
high
Obligated party
Richard Roe, P.E.
Obligation statement
Roe is obligated to apply the same ethical standards in the foreign country as he would apply domestically, refusing to adopt a different ethical standard based on the geographic or cultural context of the host country.
Temporal scope
Throughout all international engineering practice
Relationships
competesWith
Roe Foreign Official Gift Prohibition
defeasibleUnder
Roe When-in-Rome Situational Ethics Argument
derivedFromPrinciple
Situational Ethics Rejection Invoked Against Geographic Context Defense
Source Evidence
Source text
Roe is advised by a high-ranking government official of that country that 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.
Text references
Roe is advised by a high-ranking government official of that country that 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_Situational_Ethics_Non-Practice_International a proeth:SituationalEthicsNon-PracticeinInternationalEngineeringObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Roe Situational Ethics Non-Practice International" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case167:Roe_Foreign_Official_Gift_Prohibition ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case167:Roe_When-in-Rome_Situational_Ethics_Argument ;
proeth:casecontext "Roe is operating in a foreign country where gift-giving to contract-awarding officials is described as an established and legal local practice, creating pressure to adopt a locally-adapted ethical standard." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unclear" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.96" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case167:Situational_Ethics_Rejection_Invoked_Against_Geographic_Context_Defense ;
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 "Situational Ethics Non-Practice in International Engineering Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Roe is obligated to apply the same ethical standards in the foreign country as he would apply domestically, refusing to adopt a different ethical standard based on the geographic or cultural context of the host country." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Roe is advised by a high-ranking government official of that country that 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:temporalscope "Throughout all international engineering practice" ;
proeth:textreferences "Roe is advised by a high-ranking government official of that country that 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 "2026-03-02T10:28:27.330985"^^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
2026-03-02T10:28:27.330985
Generated by
ProEthica Case 167 Extraction