LSAT 129 | Section 2 | Logical Reasoning: Q11

LR Question 11 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: Pat: E-mail fosters anonymity, which removes barriers

QUESTION TYPE: Point at Issue

ARGUMENTS: Pat says emails make us more intimate with strangers, because email feels anonymous. Anonymity makes self-revelation easier.

Amar disagrees that self-revelation is intimacy. Amar says that intimacy requires social bonds and direct personal contact.

ANALYSIS: Pat says email leads to intimacy. Amar says it can’t lead to intimacy on its own, because intimacy requires in-person contact.

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1. Amar didn’t even mention self-revelation or barriers to it. This can’t possibly be the disagreement.
2. Amar actually didn’t address email. They might think email could indirectly increase intimacy if it led to more in-person contact.
3. CORRECT. See the analysis above. Amar says intimacy requires personal contact, so email alone wouldn’t work. Yet Pat thinks email between strangers can foster intimacy.
4. Pat didn’t say that social bonds always lead to intimacy. That’s an extreme statement, and you can’t assume anyone believes it unless they say it directly.
5. Amar didn’t say what effect email had on self-revelation, so this can’t be the answer. It’s possible Amar does believe that email fosters self-revelation – she just doesn’t think self-revelation is important because it can’t promote intimacy on its own.