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.
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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 …
Close, but presumably the sinners didn't mean to cause a plague.
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Karmic fallacy
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