Current Events > What is this fallacy called?

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When you argue that a mistake retroactively is no longer a mistake just because it indirectly led to something good.

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I'm pretty sure it's more of a "bias" than an outright fallacy, centered somewhere around rationalization.
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I don't think that has anything to do with fallacious reasoning. A consequentialist would argue if you make a mistake and something good happens, you did something good. It depends on the theory that informs the value of mistake.

You can't really have "the mistake had a good outcome" as an a priori premise

It can look lile this:
-if the mistake has a good outcome, it's not a mistake
-the mistake had a good outcome because it wasn't a mistake

Then you might have circular reasoning, but,

-Mistakes with good outcomes are not mistakes
-your mistake had a good outcome
- you made no mistakes

Is valid

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Hahaha, no

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