Engineer Intern D Policy Violating Design Revision Refusal Shadyvale
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/58#Engineer_Intern_D_Policy_Violating_Design_Revision_Refusal_Shadyvale
Properties
Instance of
Policy-ViolatingDesignRevisionRefusalObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Policy-ViolatingDesignRevisionRefusalObligation
Case context
Engineer Intern D had independently produced a DOT policy-compliant design avoiding the old water main and was subsequently subjected to an indirect supervisory directive to revise the design in a manner that would violate DOT cost-allocation policy and divert approximately $700,000 of DOT funds.
Compliance status
unclear
Confidence
0.91
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer Intern D
Obligation statement
Engineer Intern D was obligated to refuse to implement Engineer W's indirect directive to revise the policy-compliant design to artificially incorporate the old Shadyvale water main, notwithstanding Engineer W's promise to 'sign off' on the revised work, recognizing that the supervisor's willingness to seal the document does not relieve the intern of independent ethical responsibility to decline participation in a policy-violating design.
Temporal scope
Upon receiving Engineer W's indirect directive to revise the design
Relationships
derivedFromPrinciple
Subordinate Complicity Prohibition Applied to Engineer Intern D Cooperation Decision
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer Intern D's adherence to DOT policy (avoiding the old water main) is in accord with the Canon 3 requirements of objectivity and truthfulness.
Text references
All four of Canons 3, 4, 5, and 6 have been attacked.
Engineer Intern D's adherence to DOT policy (avoiding the old water main) is in accord with the Canon 3 requirements of objectivity and truthfulness.
If Engineer Intern D decides to cooperate with Engineer W, it is likely that no one else would ever know that $700,000 of DOT money had been diverted for the benefit of Shadyvale.
TTL
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case58:Engineer_Intern_D_Policy_Violating_Design_Revision_Refusal_Shadyvale a proeth:Policy-ViolatingDesignRevisionRefusalObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer Intern D Policy Violating Design Revision Refusal Shadyvale" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case58:Engineer_Intern_D_Faithful_Agent_DOT_Policy_Compliance_Obligation ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/58#Unlicensed_Intern_Responsible_Charge_Delegation_—_Engineer_W_to_Engineer_Intern_D> ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case58:Engineer_Intern_D_Subordinate_Complicity_Refusal_Sign_Off_Promise_Obligation ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer Intern D had independently produced a DOT policy-compliant design avoiding the old water main and was subsequently subjected to an indirect supervisory directive to revise the design in a manner that would violate DOT cost-allocation policy and divert approximately $700,000 of DOT funds." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unclear" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.91" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case58:Subordinate_Complicity_Prohibition_Applied_to_Engineer_Intern_D_Cooperation_Decision ;
proeth:discoveredincase "58" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-25T21:58:16.305408+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "58" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-25T21:58:16.305408+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer Intern D" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Policy-Violating Design Revision Refusal Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer Intern D was obligated to refuse to implement Engineer W's indirect directive to revise the policy-compliant design to artificially incorporate the old Shadyvale water main, notwithstanding Engineer W's promise to 'sign off' on the revised work, recognizing that the supervisor's willingness to seal the document does not relieve the intern of independent ethical responsibility to decline participation in a policy-violating design." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer Intern D's adherence to DOT policy (avoiding the old water main) is in accord with the Canon 3 requirements of objectivity and truthfulness." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon receiving Engineer W's indirect directive to revise the design" ;
proeth:textreferences "All four of Canons 3, 4, 5, and 6 have been attacked.",
"Engineer Intern D's adherence to DOT policy (avoiding the old water main) is in accord with the Canon 3 requirements of objectivity and truthfulness.",
"If Engineer Intern D decides to cooperate with Engineer W, it is likely that no one else would ever know that $700,000 of DOT money had been diverted for the benefit of Shadyvale." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 58 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-25T22:07:12.213069"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 58 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
58
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-25T21:58:16.305408+00:00
First case
58
Generated
2026-02-25T21:58:16.305408+00:00
Attributed to
Case 58 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-25T22:07:12.213069
Generated by
ProEthica Case 58 Extraction