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    When two frameworks yield the same practical verdicts acr... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The patient-centered view and agent-centered views differ in their treatment of the trolley problem and analogous cases.

    When two frameworks yield the same practical verdicts across canonical cases, their alleged theoretical difference lacks the action-guiding significance the claim implies.

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    • 1.Action-guidance is the primary purpose of normative frameworks; divergence that never manifests in behavior is philosophically idle.
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    • 2.Practical equivalence across canonical cases is best explained by theoretical equivalence, not by coincidental alignment of distinct theories.
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    • 3.Positing undetectable theoretical differences violates parsimony without predictive or explanatory gain.
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    • 1.Canonical cases are artificially simplified; frameworks may diverge sharply in novel, non-canonical scenarios we haven't yet encountered.
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    • 2.Theoretical significance can be independent of action-guidance: understanding *why* actions are right matters even if practical conclusions align.
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    • 3.Two frameworks may converge on verdicts from different principles; this theoretical difference has epistemic value even without behavioral divergence.
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