Engineers A B Post-Formal Persistence
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/76#Engineers_A_B_Post-Formal_Persistence
Definition
If the formal presentations to the MWC and the state regulatory agency failed to produce a change in the MWC's plans, Engineers A and B had an obligation to further pursue the matter through additional available channels, given the gravity of the danger to public health and safety.
Properties
Instance of
Post-Formal-PresentationPersistencePrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Post-Formal-PresentationPersistencePrinciple
Applied to
Metropolitan Water Commission Client Override
Public Endangered Water Consumers
Balancing with
Faithful Agent Duty Principle
Whistleblower Conscience Principle
Concrete expression
If the formal presentations to the MWC and the state regulatory agency failed to produce a change in the MWC's plans, Engineers A and B had an obligation to further pursue the matter through additional available channels, given the gravity of the danger to public health and safety.
Confidence
0.85
Interpretation
Completion of formal presentations is a necessary but not sufficient discharge of professional responsibility when the identified risk is grave; the obligation to protect the public persists until the risk is actually remediated or the engineers have exhausted available channels.
Tension resolution
Because the danger is to public health through a municipal water supply, the obligation to persist is affirmative rather than merely a matter of conscience; the gravity of the risk elevates what might otherwise be a discretionary choice into a professional duty.
Match Confidence
0.0
Matches Existing
false
Synthesis Literal
appliedTo
balancingWith
concreteExpression
confidence
interpretation
principleClass
tensionResolution
textReferences
Relationships
invokedBy
Agent Engineer A, Agent Engineer B
Source Evidence
Text references
However, in the event that these formal presentations fail to sway the MWC to change its plans, given the gravity of the danger to public health and safety, Engineers A and B have an obligation to further pursue the matter.
Source text
However, in the event that these formal presentations fail to sway the MWC to change its plans, given the gravity of the danger to public health and safety, Engineers A and B have an obligation to further pursue the matter.
TTL
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case76:Engineers_A_B_Post-Formal_Persistence a proeth:Post-Formal-PresentationPersistencePrinciple,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineers A B Post-Formal Persistence" ;
proeth-core:invokedBy case76:Agent_Engineer_A,
case76:Agent_Engineer_B ;
proeth:appliedTo "Metropolitan Water Commission Client Override",
"Public Endangered Water Consumers" ;
proeth:balancingWith "Faithful Agent Duty Principle",
"Whistleblower Conscience Principle" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteExpression "If the formal presentations to the MWC and the state regulatory agency failed to produce a change in the MWC's plans, Engineers A and B had an obligation to further pursue the matter through additional available channels, given the gravity of the danger to public health and safety." ;
proeth:confidence "0.85" ;
proeth:interpretation "Completion of formal presentations is a necessary but not sufficient discharge of professional responsibility when the identified risk is grave; the obligation to protect the public persists until the risk is actually remediated or the engineers have exhausted available channels." ;
proeth:invokedBy "Engineer A Safety Reporting",
"Engineer B Safety Reporting" ;
proeth:principleClass "Post-Formal-Presentation Persistence Principle" ;
proeth:tensionResolution "Because the danger is to public health through a municipal water supply, the obligation to persist is affirmative rather than merely a matter of conscience; the gravity of the risk elevates what might otherwise be a discretionary choice into a professional duty." ;
proeth:textReferences "However, in the event that these formal presentations fail to sway the MWC to change its plans, given the gravity of the danger to public health and safety, Engineers A and B have an obligation to further pursue the matter." ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 76 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "discussion" ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-05T11:26:55.962095+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 76 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.0 ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting false ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "However, in the event that these formal presentations fail to sway the MWC to change its plans, given the gravity of the danger to public health and safety, Engineers A and B have an obligation to further pursue the matter." ;
proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "appliedTo",
"balancingWith",
"concreteExpression",
"confidence",
"interpretation",
"principleClass",
"tensionResolution",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "If the formal presentations to the MWC and the state regulatory agency failed to produce a change in the MWC's plans, Engineers A and B had an obligation to further pursue the matter through additional available channels, given the gravity of the danger to public health and safety." ;
skos:definition "If the formal presentations to the MWC and the state regulatory agency failed to produce a change in the MWC's plans, Engineers A and B had an obligation to further pursue the matter through additional available channels, given the gravity of the danger to public health and safety." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-05T11:26:55.962095+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 76 Extraction",
"claude-sonnet-4-6" ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 76 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
76
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-06-05T11:26:55.962095+00:00
First case
76
Generated
2026-06-05T11:26:55.962095+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 76 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']
Generated by
ProEthica Case 76 Extraction