Editing Appeal to consequences (section)

=== Negative form ===
:If P, then Q will occur.
:Q is undesirable.
:Therefore, P is false.

Appeal to force (''[[argumentum ad baculum]]'') is a special instance of this form.

This form somewhat resembles ''[[modus tollens]]'' but is both different and fallacious, since "Q is undesirable" is not equivalent to "Q is false".

;Example
"If the six men win, it will mean that the police are guilty of perjury, that they are guilty of violence and threats, that the confessions were invented and improperly admitted in evidence and the convictions were erroneous... This is such an appalling vista that every sensible person in the land would say that it cannot be right that these actions should go any further." [[Tom Denning, Baron Denning|Lord Denning]] in his judgment on the [[Birmingham Six]].