Objectivity Compromised by Dual-Client Self-Interest in BER 62-7
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/177#Objectivity_Compromised_by_Dual-Client_Self-Interest_in_BER_62-7
Properties
Instance of
Applied to
BER 62-7 county commission plan approval function
Balancing with
Client Interest Primacy Over Engineer Personal Advantage in Faithful Agent Role
Loyalty
Concrete expression
The county commission engineer's self-interest in the developer's project — arising from his simultaneous retention by the developer — compromised his ability to render objective professional judgment on behalf of the commission on work in which he had participated
Confidence
0.88
Importance
high
Interpretation
Objectivity requires that professional judgment be rendered free from self-interest; when the engineer has a financial stake in the outcome through a parallel client relationship, objective judgment is structurally impossible
Invoked by
BER 62-7 County Commission Engineering Consultant
Tension resolution
The self-interest created by the dual-client arrangement was found to override any claim of objective judgment, confirming the conflict of interest finding
Source Evidence
Source text
This obviously involved the self interest of the engineer and divided his loyalties.
Text references
This obviously involved the self interest of the engineer and divided his loyalties
he was put into the position of assessing his recommendations to two clients with possibly opposing interests
TTL
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proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
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proeth:importance "high" ;
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proeth:sourcetext "This obviously involved the self interest of the engineer and divided his loyalties." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The self-interest created by the dual-client arrangement was found to override any claim of objective judgment, confirming the conflict of interest finding" ;
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"he was put into the position of assessing his recommendations to two clients with possibly opposing interests" ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
177
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T09:19:55.685945+00:00
First case
177
Generated
2026-03-01T09:19:55.685945+00:00
Attributed to
Case 177 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T09:35:05.779621
Generated by
ProEthica Case 177 Extraction