Faithful Agent Obligation Invoked By Engineer Intern D DOT Service
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/58#Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Invoked_By_Engineer_Intern_D_DOT_Service
Properties
Instance of
FaithfulAgentObligationWithinEthicalLimits
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#FaithfulAgentObligationWithinEthicalLimits
Applied to
Engineer Intern D's service relationship with State DOT as employer
Balancing with
Intern Epistemic Humility and Materiality Deference Obligation
Subordinate Complicity Prohibition in Unlicensed or Incapacitated Supervision
Concrete expression
Engineer Intern D's obligation to serve the State DOT faithfully is bounded by the ethical and policy limits imposed by mandatory DOT cost-allocation policy; faithful agency to DOT requires maintaining the policy-compliant design and escalating Engineer W's improper directive, not complying with a directive that would misappropriate DOT funds contrary to mandatory policy
Confidence
0.87
Importance
high
Interpretation
Faithful agency to DOT paradoxically requires Engineer Intern D to resist Engineer W's directive, because complying with the directive would harm DOT's institutional interest in policy compliance and proper resource stewardship; the faithful agent obligation runs to the institution and its lawful policies, not merely to the immediate supervisor
Invoked by
Engineer Intern D DOT Highway Project Engineer Intern
Tension resolution
The faithful agent obligation to DOT as institution requires compliance with DOT's mandatory cost-allocation policy, which overrides the general deference obligation to Engineer W as immediate supervisor when Engineer W's directive conflicts with that policy
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer Intern D initiates the design layout for the Shadyvale DOT project to avoid conflicts with the existing utilities, including separation of a new closed drainage system from the old water main.
Text references
Engineer Intern D initiates the design layout for the Shadyvale DOT project to avoid conflicts with the existing utilities.
Engineer W conveys to Engineer Intern D in an indirect way that the design should be revised so that the old water main is impacted.
State DOT policy unambiguously requires that only unavoidable utility conflicts will be paid for as part of highway projects, and that other utility work is to be considered as a betterment that must be paid for by the local municipality.
TTL
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case58:Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Invoked_By_Engineer_Intern_D_DOT_Service a proeth:FaithfulAgentObligationWithinEthicalLimits,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Faithful Agent Obligation Invoked By Engineer Intern D DOT Service" ;
proeth:appliedto "Engineer Intern D's service relationship with State DOT as employer" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Intern Epistemic Humility and Materiality Deference Obligation",
"Subordinate Complicity Prohibition in Unlicensed or Incapacitated Supervision" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer Intern D's obligation to serve the State DOT faithfully is bounded by the ethical and policy limits imposed by mandatory DOT cost-allocation policy; faithful agency to DOT requires maintaining the policy-compliant design and escalating Engineer W's improper directive, not complying with a directive that would misappropriate DOT funds contrary to mandatory policy" ;
proeth:confidence "0.87" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "58" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-25T21:50:17.420916+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "58" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-25T21:50:17.420916+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "Faithful agency to DOT paradoxically requires Engineer Intern D to resist Engineer W's directive, because complying with the directive would harm DOT's institutional interest in policy compliance and proper resource stewardship; the faithful agent obligation runs to the institution and its lawful policies, not merely to the immediate supervisor" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer Intern D DOT Highway Project Engineer Intern" ;
proeth:principleclass "Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer Intern D initiates the design layout for the Shadyvale DOT project to avoid conflicts with the existing utilities, including separation of a new closed drainage system from the old water main." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The faithful agent obligation to DOT as institution requires compliance with DOT's mandatory cost-allocation policy, which overrides the general deference obligation to Engineer W as immediate supervisor when Engineer W's directive conflicts with that policy" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer Intern D initiates the design layout for the Shadyvale DOT project to avoid conflicts with the existing utilities.",
"Engineer W conveys to Engineer Intern D in an indirect way that the design should be revised so that the old water main is impacted.",
"State DOT policy unambiguously requires that only unavoidable utility conflicts will be paid for as part of highway projects, and that other utility work is to be considered as a betterment that must be paid for by the local municipality." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 58 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-25T22:07:12.201663"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 58 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
58
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-25T21:50:17.420916+00:00
First case
58
Generated
2026-02-25T21:50:17.420916+00:00
Attributed to
Case 58 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-25T22:07:12.201663
Generated by
ProEthica Case 58 Extraction