DP5
Individual
8a16af58
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/89#DP5
Properties
Parent
Decision Point Id
DP5
Decision Question
Should Engineer A treat the client's informed cost-based refusal as shifting sufficient moral responsibility to alter his own obligation to insist or withdraw, or maintain his full ethical obligation regardless of the client's autonomous choice?
Focus
The client has made an autonomous, informed decision to reject the professionally identified safety measure on cost grounds. Engineer A must assess whether this client decision shifts sufficient moral responsibility to the client to alter Engineer A's own ethical obligations—specifically, whether partial responsibility transfer permits Engineer A to proceed with reduced ethical culpability.
Option1
Treat the client's autonomous refusal as irrelevant to Engineer A's own ethical obligations, on the grounds that the NSPE Code's paramount duty to protect public safety is not diminished by a client's informed decision to accept risk, and that third parties—workers and the public—did not consent to the increased danger.
Option2
Acknowledge that the client's informed, documented refusal shifts a meaningful portion of moral responsibility toward the client, and treat this partial shift as a factor that, combined with formal written documentation of the objection, may permit Engineer A to continue work with reduced ethical culpability.
Option3
Condition any continuation of work on the client formally assuming documented responsibility for the safety risk in writing, while Engineer A simultaneously notifies proper authorities of the unresolved safety concern—treating the responsibility shift as real but insufficient on its own to discharge Engineer A's public welfare obligation.
Role Label
Engineer A Construction Phase Safety Recommendation Abandoning Engineer
TTL
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix proethica_case_89: <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/89> .
<http://proethica.org/ontology/case/89#DP5> a owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "DP5" ;
rdfs:subClassOf <http://proethica.org/ontology/cases#DecisionPoint> .
Metadata
Ontology
Type
Individual
Content Hash
8a16af583c6e017a...Last Updated
2026-03-08 16:29
Extraction Provenance
Generated
2026-03-01T18:38:27.081373
Generated By
ProEthica Case 89 Extraction