Client-Interest vs. Public-Interest Open Conflict State
Class
02a3f1ee
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Client-Interestvs.Public-InterestOpenConflictState
Definition
State in which a licensed professional engineer faces an explicit, acknowledged, and serious conflict between the interests of a client — including confidentiality expectations and business preferences — and the interests of the public, including compliance with environmental, safety, or regulatory laws, where the conflict is not merely latent or speculative but has materialized into a concrete situation requiring the engineer to choose between competing obligations.
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Definition
State in which a licensed professional engineer faces an explicit, acknowledged, and serious conflict between the interests of a client — including confidentiality expectations and business preferences — and the interests of the public, including compliance with environmental, safety, or regulatory laws, where the conflict is not merely latent or speculative but has materialized into a concrete situation requiring the engineer to choose between competing obligations.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Engineering practice sometimes places the engineer in the position where the interests of a client and the interests of the public are in open and serious conflict.
TTL
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rdfs:label "Client-Interest vs. Public-Interest Open Conflict State" ;
rdfs:comment "State in which a licensed professional engineer faces an explicit, acknowledged, and serious conflict between the interests of a client — including confidentiality expectations and business preferences — and the interests of the public, including compliance with environmental, safety, or regulatory laws, where the conflict is not merely latent or speculative but has materialized into a concrete situation requiring the engineer to choose between competing obligations." ;
rdfs:subClassOf <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#State> .
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Ontology
Type
Class
Content Hash
02a3f1ee348b600b...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
86
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-02-27T17:55:52.776342+00:00
First Discovered In Case
86
Generated
2026-02-27T17:55:52.776342+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 86 Extraction