Band Wagon Approach

Everyone is familiar with the bandwagon approach and many teenagers use it with their parents as a way to get what they want.

"Why can't I go to the movies? Everyone else's parents are letting their kids go!"

If a parent has not heard this then they will in the very near future. Little did I know, though, that this argument is part of Heinrich's seven sins. This phrase is labelled as "false facts". Many times a child will try to make a point by grouping "facts" together and drawing a conclusion that is not entirely true.
A parent would retort this comment by saying:

"If everyone else was jumping off cliffs would you as well? Take a stand and be different!"

In this case the child would just get a scrunched up face and walk away or throw an even bigger fit in retaliation.

Another point that I learned about was fallacy of antecedent. This is when a point is presented but no evidence is used to back it up. Governments, big corporations, and parents use this to convince their audience their point. They say things that have never happened, or will never happen again if it has happened once.

Overall I have a new appreciation of the newly defined "7 deadly sins". Lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride no longer are the only rules to living but rather the list is added to with false comparison, bad example, ignorance as proop, tauntology, false choice, red herring, and wrong ending.