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Originally Posted by LadyShea
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Added to previous post: There is no obvious difference in appearance between having free will or not having free will from a superficial standpoint, but the importance of knowing the truth; that we don't have free will is huge and has major implications for our world [which is the reason I'm working so hard to get people to understand]. Don't you think this is an important subject if knowing the truth about our nature can bring about world peace? What is more important than that?
This theory [of free will] is actually
preventing the decline and fall of all evil because it has closed a door
to a vast storehouse of genuine knowledge.
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Fallacious reasoning: Appeal to Consequences
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There goes your awful debating style LadyShea. This is anything but an appeal to consequences even though the outcome is desirable. Change the way you address yourself (accusations instead of questions), or I'm not answering you.
Appeal to consequences, also known as argumentum ad consequentiam (Latin for "argument to the consequences"), is an argument that concludes a hypothesis (typically a belief) to be either true or false based on whether the premise leads to desirable or undesirable consequences. This is based on an appeal to emotion and is a type of informal fallacy, since the desirability of a consequence does not make it true. Moreover, in categorizing consequences as either desirable or undesirable, such arguments inherently contain subjective points of view.
In logic, appeal to consequences refers only to arguments that assert a conclusion's truth value (true or false) without regard to the formal preservation of the truth from the premises; appeal to consequences does not refer to arguments that address a premise's consequential desirability (good or bad, or right or wrong) instead of its truth value. Therefore, an argument based on appeal to consequences is valid in long-term decision making (which discusses possibilities that do not exist yet in the present) and abstract ethics, and in fact such arguments are the cornerstones of many moral theories, particularly related to consequentialism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_consequences