But, if they switched the wording around on something morally obvious, like on the statement that “unjustified acts of violence on innocent people are always [wrong /right],” you wouldn’t get anyone defending the clearly reprehensible choice.

So, my point is to say that there are some black and white moral choices and testing them in this study would likely get very different results from the morally complex or morally ambiguous problems.

Not all moral questions are black and white with easy solutions. So it’s probably advantageous that people are open to change their position on the complex ones.

If they switched the wording around on something morally obvious, like on the statement that “unjustified acts of violence on innocent people are always [wrong /right],” you wouldn’t get anyone defending the clearly reprehensible choice.

I bet the recognition of mistakes and alterations back to reflect the true opinions of the survey takers would be significantly raised if the survey collector represented some actual significant character in their lives, like a boss or some such.