Logical Fallacies

Logical fallacies are a tricky thing in themselves. We know the popular one for all kids these day, or you could say always has been, is that everyone is doing it. My brothers were big on using this argument on our parents. Anytime they wanted to do something that they knew our parents weren’t in favor of, out came the “but mom everyone else is doing it.” While this didn’t always work sometimes they would give in and let them think they had won. Now, my brother was always inventive when he really, really wanted something and would change up his argument. I’m not sure you would consider it a logical fallacies or not, as he used the opposite of his usually argument. One year my brother really wanted to attend this summer camp that was being offered. He knew darn well that he regular argument, “but everyone is doing it,” wasn’t going to work as no one he knew was going to the camp. When it came time to sit down my mom and step dad to convince them to let him go, he shocked us all. He casually explained the camp and of course got the usually, “we’ll think about it” response. This didn’t deter him through and the next thing he said had shock value. He looked straight at my mom and step dad saying, “But no one else is doing it and I want to be different.” I couldn’t believe it, we all just stared at him for a minute. I think my parents were expecting the same argument as always they were shocked into letting him get his way and go. They just looked at each other and said, “Who are we to stand in the way of letting him be different.” So that summer my brother was off to his camp while the rest of us were stuck at home.