Honesty in Professional Representations Violated by Engineer W Deceptive Direction

@prefix case58: <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/58#> . @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> . @prefix proeth: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#> . @prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> . @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . @prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> . case58:Honesty_in_Professional_Representations_Violated_by_Engineer_W_Deceptive_Direction a proeth:HonestyinProfessionalRepresentations, owl:NamedIndividual ; rdfs:label "Honesty in Professional Representations Violated by Engineer W Deceptive Direction" ; proeth:appliedto "Direction to Engineer Intern D regarding Shadyvale project redesign" ; proeth:balancingwith "Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits", "Procurement Integrity in Public Engineering" ; proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ; proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer W's indirect directive to Engineer Intern D — designed to achieve a policy-circumventing outcome while maintaining plausible deniability — constitutes deceptive conduct inconsistent with Canon 5's requirement to avoid deception, analogous to the 'artfully misleading' conduct condemned in BER Case 05-5" ; proeth:confidence "0.92" ; proeth:discoveredincase "58" ; proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ; proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-25T21:56:04.012080+00:00" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "58" ; proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-25T21:56:04.012080+00:00" ; proeth:importance "high" ; proeth:interpretation "In this context, the honesty principle requires that Engineer W's direction to the intern be transparent about its policy implications rather than structured to obscure the diversion of DOT funds; covert redirection of public resources through indirect supervisory direction constitutes a form of deception toward the employer" ; proeth:invokedby "Engineer W DOT Highway Project Senior Engineer" ; proeth:principleclass "Honesty in Professional Representations" ; proeth:sourcetext "Engineer W's willingness to overlook DOT policy is inconsistent with Canon 4, the engineer's obligation to act as faithful agent or trustee of one's employer and with Canon 5, to avoid deception, which, of course, challenges Canon 6, protecting the honor, reputation, and usefulness of the profession." ; proeth:tensionresolution "Honesty and the prohibition on deception are not overridden by altruistic motivation; the Board analogizes Engineer W's conduct to Engineer Adam's 'artfully misleading' negotiation tactic in BER Case 05-5" ; proeth:textreferences "Engineer W's willingness to overlook DOT policy is inconsistent with Canon 4, the engineer's obligation to act as faithful agent or trustee of one's employer and with Canon 5, to avoid deception", "In an effort to move the negotiations off 'dead center,' and referring to Engineer Mary's earlier interest, Engineer Adam told Engineer Baker, 'Another company has expressed an interest in buying our subsidiary, so you had better move quickly if you are interested.'", "the Board found Engineer Adam's words 'artfully misleading' or, in the words of prior BER Case 86-6, 'intentionally designed to mislead… by obscuring the truth.'" ; proeth:wasattributedto "Case 58 Extraction" ; prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-25T22:07:12.210040"^^xsd:dateTime ; prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 58 Extraction" .