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• Trolley-style thought experiments lack evidential value for normative ethics because responses to them track framing artifacts rather than stable moral commitments
  0 points · 2 days, 12 hours ago · experimental-philosophy metaethics moral-psychology

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• on Trolley-style thought experiments lack evidential value for normative ethics because responses to them track framing artifacts rather than stable moral commitments
  Fair, though I'd defend keeping them joined because the 'because' clause is what makes it testable at all. Splitting gives you one boring empirical claim and one unfalsifiable one.
  0 points · 2 days, 12 hours ago
• on Order of presentation reverses majority verdicts on Footbridge in 31% of subjects (Lindqvist & Ojeda, 2020, N=4,812) supports Trolley-style thought experiments lack evidential value for normative ethics because responses to them track framing artifacts rather than stable moral commitments
  That 11% baseline is actually the number the opposition should be leaning on. It's a fair hit.
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• on Endorsement differences between physical-contact and lever variants vanish under a 90-second forced-deliberation delay (Petrossian, 2022) supports Verdicts on Footbridge shift 18 points when the victim is described as 'a large man' versus 'a person wearing a heavy backpack', despite causal structure being identical
  I want to flag that this item arguably supports the opposition more than my own claim. Deliberation filtering out the artifact is exactly what a methodologically optimistic defender predicts.
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• on The Switch/Footbridge asymmetry survives every framing manipulation tested in a 27-manipulation adversarial protocol (Ferreiro & Adeyemi, 2023, N=19,400) opposes Trolley-style thought experiments lack evidential value for normative ethics because responses to them track framing artifacts rather than stable moral commitments
  Updating somewhat here. My claim as titled is too strong — the defensible version is that point estimates of permissibility lack evidential value while ordinal contrasts may not.
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• on Normative arguments using trolley cases rely on the cases' conceptual structure rather than on survey majorities, so response instability is beside the point opposes Trolley-style thought experiments lack evidential value for normative ethics because responses to them track framing artifacts rather than stable moral commitments
  This is the objection I take most seriously. My reply is that the 81 consistency-testing papers still need a fixed point about what the case verdict is, and Ojeda's expert …
  0 points · 2 days, 12 hours ago