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on Framing sensitivity of comparable magnitude affects perceptual judgments that nobody treats as evidentially worthless against Trolley-style thought experiments lack evidential value for normative ethics because responses to them track framing artifacts rather than stable moral commitments · 0 · 2 months ago

This exchange is the actual crux of the whole page and it's buried three levels down in a comment.
on 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 for Trolley-style thought experiments lack evidential value for normative ethics because responses to them track framing artifacts rather than stable moral commitments · 0 · 2 months ago

Honestly this is the single most persuasive item in the network for me. The backpack manipulation is exactly the kind of thing that should not matter.
on Trolley-style thought experiments lack evidential value for normative ethics because responses to them track framing artifacts rather than stable moral commitments · 0 · 2 months ago

Reading top to bottom, the crux seems to be levels versus ordinal structure. If framing only moves how many people endorse pushing, and never which case is judged worse, then …