Non-Acquiescence to Client Directive Suppressing Safety Analysis Invoked by BER Discussion Section

@prefix case88: <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/88#> . @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#> . case88:Non-Acquiescence_to_Client_Directive_Suppressing_Safety_Analysis_Invoked_by_BER_Discussion_Section a proeth:Non-AcquiescencetoClientDirectiveSuppressingSafetyAnalysis, owl:NamedIndividual ; rdfs:label "Non-Acquiescence to Client Directive Suppressing Safety Analysis Invoked by BER Discussion Section" ; proeth:appliedto "Client B's direction to forgo specialized hydrologic and hydraulic subconsultant analysis" ; proeth:balancingwith "Client Loyalty", "Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits" ; proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ; proeth:concreteexpression "The BER holds that Engineer A must not acquiesce to Client B's direction to forgo specialized hydrologic and hydraulic analysis; Engineer A must engage Client B in discussions about the need for detailed evaluation, propose regulatory report submission if Client B remains unconvinced, and withdraw if Client B refuses both courses of action." ; proeth:confidence "0.96" ; proeth:discoveredincase "88" ; proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ; proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-27T14:20:08.457238+00:00" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "88" ; proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-27T14:20:08.457238+00:00" ; proeth:importance "high" ; proeth:interpretation "In this context, the non-acquiescence principle requires Engineer A to treat Client B's cost-based direction to forgo analysis as ethically impermissible when Engineer A's professional judgment indicates that the analysis is necessary to identify material flooding risks to upstream homeowners." ; proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Climate Change Impact Evaluating Infrastructure Engineer" ; proeth:principleclass "Non-Acquiescence to Client Directive Suppressing Safety Analysis" ; proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A should engage Client B in discussions about the need for the detailed evaluation and disclosure of the potential impacts on the public and alternatives for the project to mitigate those impacts, and the potential risk to Client B of not evaluating the potential impacts." ; proeth:tensionresolution "Non-acquiescence principle overrides client direction; Engineer A must advocate for analysis and disclosure even against client resistance, escalating to regulatory submission or withdrawal if client refuses." ; proeth:textreferences "Engineer A should engage Client B in discussions about the need for the detailed evaluation and disclosure of the potential impacts on the public and alternatives for the project to mitigate those impacts, and the potential risk to Client B of not evaluating the potential impacts.", "Failing agreement by Client B to either of these courses of action the BER believes that Engineer A should withdraw from the project.", "If Client B remains unconvinced, Engineer A should propose to Client B that engineer a provides the potential concern that may necessitate more detailed evaluation in an engineering report for consideration by regulatory agencies and the public." ; proeth:wasattributedto "Case 88 Extraction" ; prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T10:32:26.863013"^^xsd:dateTime ; prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 88 Extraction" .