LSAT 105 | Section 1 | Logical Reasoning: Q14

LR Question 14 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: If an artist receives a public subsidy to support …

QUESTION TYPE: Principle – Justify

CONCLUSION: An artist who receives a public subsidy and later becomes financially successful is morally obligated to repay it.

REASONING: The money repaid could be used to support other deserving artists who need subsidies.

ANALYSIS: The argument is that repaying the subsidy is a moral obligation because the money would help other artists. To support this, we need a principle that establishes that subsidies should be repaid under certain conditions (i.e. if you end up becoming successful).

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1. Encouraging other artists to seek subsidies has nothing to do with repaying the one you received.
2. Acknowledging that success isn’t only about artistic merit does not establish a duty to repay subsidies.
3. CORRECT. This is a convoluted way of stating that subsidies create a debt that should only be forgiven if repayment is impossible or unnecessary. This directly supports the idea that successful artists should repay their subsidies.
4. This focuses on who should receive subsidies, not whether they should be repaid.
5. Requiring artists to seek bank loans first is an entirely separate issue that doesn’t address the obligation to repay a subsidy once received.