{"id":81,"date":"2015-12-14T11:48:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T11:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/falacias.escepticos.es\/?page_id=81"},"modified":"2020-09-29T13:17:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T11:17:15","slug":"argumento-ad-consequentiam","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/argumento-ad-consequentiam\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal to consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>That can\u2019t be true, because I don\u2019t like it.<\/strong><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/10eng-2.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-335\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-917 size-full\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/10eng-2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"oculto\" style=\"visibility: hidden; display: none;\">\n<p id=\"p1\">https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/10eng-2.gif<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<button onclick=\"copiarAlPortapapeles('p1')\">Click here to copy the image for your social network<\/button><\/p>\n<p>The author points to the unpleasant consequences of supporting a particular view in order to prove it wrong.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples<\/strong><br \/>\nThe theory of evolution can&#8217;t be true. If it were, we wouldn&#8217;t be better than monkeys or apes.<br \/>\nYou must believe in God, otherwise life would be meaningless. (Maybe that is true, although the opposite could also be true: since life lacks meaning, God doesn&#8217;t exist.).<br \/>\nIf you speak badly about JJ be aware of the consequences, since JJ is my friend, do you get that, pal?<\/p>\n<p><strong>To refute it<\/strong><br \/>\nIdentify the consequences and claim that, as much as we may want something to be true, it isn&#8217;t necessarily.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: grey; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 75%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whenever the source is not referenced, both definitions and examples have been extracted from a translation of Jaime Wilson jwilson@bytecr.com based on<em> Stephen\u2019s Guide to the Logical Fallacies<\/em>. Copyright 1995-1998 Stephen Downes. Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: grey; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 75%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These texts have been modified by Miguel A. Lerma and now by us <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to adapt them -and those taken from Wikipedia- to our format.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That can\u2019t be true, because I don\u2019t like it. https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/10eng-2.gif Click here to copy the image for your social network The author points to the unpleasant consequences of supporting a particular view in order to prove it wrong. Examples The theory of evolution can&#8217;t be true. If it were, we wouldn&#8217;t be better than monkeys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}