Appeal to consequences
Moreover, in categorizing consequences as either desirable or undesirable, such arguments inherently contain subjective points of view.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.An argument based on appeal to consequences generally has one of two forms:[2] It is closely related to wishful thinking in its construction.In law, an argument from inconvenience or argumentum ab inconvenienti, is a valid type of appeal to consequences.Such an argument would seek to show that a proposed action would have unreasonably inconvenient consequences, as for example a law that would require a person wishing to lend money against a security to first ascertain the borrower's title to the property by inquiring in every single courthouse in the country.