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    Framing Effects Entry #0522

    The reason a metaphor decides a policy debate

    A metaphor imports the logic of its source. Once crime is a virus, the conversation is about containment, and containment was never voted for.

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    The hidden part #0522

    A metaphor is not decoration on an argument. It is the machinery the argument runs on, and it arrives with its conclusions pre-installed.

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    Framing Effects Entry #0511

    Why default framing decides organ donation rates

    Similar populations record wildly different consent rates. The gap tracks which answer required an action, though the causal chain runs longer than it looks.

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    The hidden part #0511

    The default reliably changes what the register says. Whether it changes what happens afterwards is a separate question with a messier answer.

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