Competing Public Goods Tension State
Class
7356331f
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#CompetingPublicGoodsTensionState
Definition
State in which a licensed professional engineer must evaluate and report on a decision that involves a genuine conflict between two or more legitimate public goods — such as environmental sustainability and grid reliability — where advancing one good may measurably harm another, and where no single option fully satisfies all public welfare obligations, requiring the engineer to present the tradeoffs transparently rather than advocate for either good unilaterally.
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Definition
State in which a licensed professional engineer must evaluate and report on a decision that involves a genuine conflict between two or more legitimate public goods — such as environmental sustainability and grid reliability — where advancing one good may measurably harm another, and where no single option fully satisfies all public welfare obligations, requiring the engineer to present the tradeoffs transparently rather than advocate for either good unilaterally.
Source Evidence
Source Text
What guidance can Engineer A rely upon to address a potential conflict between competing public goods?
TTL
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Ontology
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Class
Content Hash
7356331f577dc94b...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
73
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-02-25T23:33:22.110152+00:00
First Discovered In Case
73
Generated
2026-02-25T23:33:22.110152+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 73 Extraction