Engineer C BER 79-2 Post-Decision Non-Ethical-Indictment of Engineers A and B
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/94#Engineer_C_BER_79-2_Post-Decision_Non-Ethical-Indictment_of_Engineers_A_and_B
Properties
Instance of
PublicPolicyEngineeringDebatePost-DecisionAcceptanceObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#PublicPolicyEngineeringDebatePost-DecisionAcceptanceObligation
Case context
BER Case No. 79-2: Engineer C publicly contended that the higher-level landfill design was environmentally unsound due to methane gas migration and groundwater pollution, stirring considerable local controversy.
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.87
Importance
medium
Obligated party
Engineer C (resident engineer challenger) in BER 79-2
Obligation statement
Engineer C, having publicly challenged the landfill expansion design as environmentally unsound, was obligated — after the appropriate public authority considered all views and reached a decision — to accept that Engineers A and B had acted in conformance with the code of ethics, and to refrain from treating the outcome as an ethical indictment of their professional judgment.
Temporal scope
After the public authority's decision on the landfill expansion design
Relationships
derivedFromPrinciple
Public Policy Open Debate Resolution — BER 79-2 Landfill Controversy
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer C was acting within the intent of the code in raising his concern.
Text references
Engineer C was acting within the intent of the code in raising his concern.
That there are conflicting public views between engineers in this case should be of no concern
if, after due consideration of his views and those of others, the decision should be to proceed with the proposed design of the expanded landfill, all involved should accept that each engineer had acted in conformance with the code.
TTL
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proeth:sourcetext "Engineer C was acting within the intent of the code in raising his concern." ;
proeth:temporalscope "After the public authority's decision on the landfill expansion design" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer C was acting within the intent of the code in raising his concern.",
"That there are conflicting public views between engineers in this case should be of no concern",
"if, after due consideration of his views and those of others, the decision should be to proceed with the proposed design of the expanded landfill, all involved should accept that each engineer had acted in conformance with the code." ;
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Extraction details
Discovered in case
94
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T20:47:23.287524+00:00
First case
94
Generated
2026-02-28T20:47:23.287524+00:00
Attributed to
Case 94 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T20:55:42.372032
Generated by
ProEthica Case 94 Extraction