[beavus]

If we're wrong, what have we lost? It depends on who's right.

Of course, such an appeal to consequences presumes (1) we don't care about truth, and (2) we can simply choose to believe things that don't make sense to us.

[BikerNYC]

True. And an appeal to consequences makes most believers out to be hedonists...we act the way wee do to create the most pleasure and happiness for us.