For convenience, the Ethical Consistency Principle and the four forms of the Fallacy of Political Reductionism (all deriving from invalid interpretations of that principle) are presented together below.     

Ethical Consistency Principle: If X is moral (or desirable), then X should be legal.	Fallacy Form 1 (Inverse): If X is immoral (or undesirable), then X should be illegal.
	Fallacy Form 2 (Converse): If X should be legal, then X is moral (or desirable).
	Fallacy Form 3 (Inverse Reformulated): If X is moral (or desirable), then X should be legally required.
	Fallacy Form 4 (Converse Reformulated): If X should not be legally required, then X is not moral (or desirable).

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