Honesty Obligation Engineer A City Planning Board Presentation
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/94#Honesty_Obligation_Engineer_A_City_Planning_Board_Presentation
Properties
Instance of
Applied to
City Planning Board public hearing presentation
Responses to Board questions about the waterfront development
Balancing with
Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits
Relevance and Pertinence Standard for Voluntary Disclosure at Public Hearings
Concrete expression
Engineer A's presentation to the City Planning Board was required to be truthful and non-deceptive; while he was not obligated to volunteer information he judged not relevant and pertinent, he was obligated to answer all questions posed to him completely and truthfully.
Confidence
0.85
Importance
medium
Interpretation
The honesty obligation operates as a floor constraint on the relevance and pertinence standard: even if an engineer need not volunteer certain information, the engineer must not be deceptive or misleading in what is presented, and must answer all questions truthfully and completely.
Invoked by
Engineer A Public Hearing Presenting Consulting Engineer Present Case
Tension resolution
The honesty obligation and the relevance and pertinence standard are complementary rather than conflicting: the former governs the quality of what is disclosed, while the latter governs the scope of what must be voluntarily disclosed.
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineers who are involved in such activities should perform their obligations in a manner that is consistent with the NSPE Code of Ethics.
Text references
Engineer A's ethical obligation does not require him to disclose such information if, in his professional judgment, it is not 'relevant and pertinent.'
Engineers who are involved in such activities should perform their obligations in a manner that is consistent with the NSPE Code of Ethics.
TTL
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proeth:appliedto "City Planning Board public hearing presentation",
"Responses to Board questions about the waterfront development" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits",
"Relevance and Pertinence Standard for Voluntary Disclosure at Public Hearings" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A's presentation to the City Planning Board was required to be truthful and non-deceptive; while he was not obligated to volunteer information he judged not relevant and pertinent, he was obligated to answer all questions posed to him completely and truthfully." ;
proeth:confidence "0.85" ;
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proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T19:01:33.144715+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "94" ;
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proeth:importance "medium" ;
proeth:interpretation "The honesty obligation operates as a floor constraint on the relevance and pertinence standard: even if an engineer need not volunteer certain information, the engineer must not be deceptive or misleading in what is presented, and must answer all questions truthfully and completely." ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Public Hearing Presenting Consulting Engineer Present Case" ;
proeth:principleclass "Honesty" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineers who are involved in such activities should perform their obligations in a manner that is consistent with the NSPE Code of Ethics." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The honesty obligation and the relevance and pertinence standard are complementary rather than conflicting: the former governs the quality of what is disclosed, while the latter governs the scope of what must be voluntarily disclosed." ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A's ethical obligation does not require him to disclose such information if, in his professional judgment, it is not 'relevant and pertinent.'",
"Engineers who are involved in such activities should perform their obligations in a manner that is consistent with the NSPE Code of Ethics." ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
94
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T19:01:33.144715+00:00
First case
94
Generated
2026-02-28T19:01:33.144715+00:00
Attributed to
Case 94 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T19:13:05.767130
Generated by
ProEthica Case 94 Extraction