LSAT 152 | Section 4 | Logical Reasoning: Q25

LR Question 25 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: Editorial: Any democratic society is endangered by segmentation …

QUESTION TYPE: Strengthen

CONCLUSION: Democracies should adopt policies that guarantee economic expansion.

REASONING:

• Class division is dangerous for society
• Economic expansion gives people more opportunities to improve their economic status

ANALYSIS: Okay, so we need to help people get richer by allowing opportunities for economic expansion.

But does facilitating the increase of each person’s wealth create less division? If everyone is increasing their wealth, the segmentation stays the same. The distribution is still the same, but everyone has a little bit more.

We need to patch this by showing that economic expansion reduces the dangerous kind of class segmentation the author is worried about.

To reduce class segmentation, people with lower-incomes should benefit more. That will create more equality.

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1. This just says division increases inequity, which doesn’t help us at all.
2. We care about why expansion is desirable, not whether it’s politically feasible.
3. CORRECT. If economic expansion increases earnings proportionally more for low-income people, then it directly promotes upward mobility and reduces rigid class division. That supports the editorial’s reasoning.
4. This is about what expansion requires, not why societies should want it.
5. This says divisive political factions can obstruct expansion. That may be true, but it does not show that expansion is a good solution to the problem.