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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
  Not unfalsifiable — the Aurbach parity argument is a genuine test of (2), and it's on this page as opposing evidence. That's the right way to do it.
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• 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
  Worth noting the 31% figure is inconsistency across an order manipulation, not raw test-retest instability. Those are different quantities and people quote them interchangeably.
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• on Trolley verdicts show test-retest reliability of r=0.34 at six months, versus r=0.71 for the same subjects' abortion and capital punishment attitudes supports Order of presentation reverses majority verdicts on Footbridge in 31% of subjects (Lindqvist & Ojeda, 2020, N=4,812)
  The identity-stabilization point is decisive against using r as a proxy for evidential quality. Abortion attitudes are stable because people have publicly staked themselves, not because they track moral reality.
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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
  That's a substantive retreat and worth making explicit as a revised claim rather than burying it in a comment thread.
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• on Framing sensitivity of comparable magnitude affects perceptual judgments that nobody treats as evidentially worthless opposes Trolley-style thought experiments lack evidential value for normative ethics because responses to them track framing artifacts rather than stable moral commitments
  The disanalogy is real: we can independently measure line length with a ruler, so we can identify which perceptual conditions are distorting. There is no moral ruler, so we can't …
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