Does anyone know the name of the logical fallacy wherein one assumes, if a bad thing happens, it must have some bad cause? E.g. that if there's a plague, it's because we've been sinful, and God is punishing us.
I'm looking for a slightly more general version, where one assumes that if something bad happens to X, it must be because someone (but not necessarily X) behaved badly.
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Karma
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I suppose it’s similar to corelation != causation
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E.g. in a plague supposedly brought on us by our sins, people die who weren't sinners. Babies for example.
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Appeal to false equivalency?
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Dyadic completion
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Let's call it "teleological fallacy".
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Would this be a special case of the animistic fallacy? "The animistic fallacy is the informal fallacy of arguing that an event or situation necessarily arose because someone intentionally acted to cause it."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animistic_fallacy …
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Close, but presumably the sinners didn't mean to cause a plague.
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