Any Later Event Breaks Chain
This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 1 active question. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”
Subject distribution
- CRIMINAL1
Example wrong choices
19566_rescue-van-swerve · CRIMINAL · Choice AYes, because Daniel was the but-for cause, and but-for causation alone establishes proximate cause
Why it's attractive
The answer says but-for causation alone proves proximate cause.
Why it's wrong
The answer says but-for causation alone proves proximate cause.
19566_rescue-van-swerve · CRIMINAL · Choice CNo, because the rescue-van swerve was an independent event that broke the causal chain
Why it's attractive
The answer treats a later event as automatically chain-breaking.
Why it's wrong
The answer treats a later event as automatically chain-breaking.
19566_rescue-van-swerve · CRIMINAL · Choice DNo, because the surgeon's operation, not Daniel's stabbing, was the direct cause of death
Why it's attractive
The answer chases the final medical act instead of the foreseeability chain.
Why it's wrong
The answer chases the final medical act instead of the foreseeability chain.
Practice the questions that use this trap as a distractor and get full Wrong Answer Forensics on submit.
Practice questions using this trap →