LSAT 159 | Section 1 | Logical Reasoning: Q3

LR Question 3 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: Hernandez: Celebrities’ public pronouncements can warp …

QUESTION TYPE: Point at Issue

ARGUMENTS: Hernandez says that celebrities should avoid publicly talking about controversial issues they aren’t experts on, because people care more about their opinions than others.

Liu says that celebrities should be free to join public debates. They are members of the community too and it is not their fault if people take them too seriously.

ANALYSIS: Liu isn’t saying Hernandez is wrong that celebrities’ opinions are given more weight than others’. Liu is contesting what that should mean – celebrities are entitled to join controversial debates just like anyone else.

Note also that Hernandez never claims that this is the fault of the celebrities. He just thinks the right thing to do is for them to stay silent unless they have expertise.

The only clear disagreement is about what celebrities should do.

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1. Liu never explicitly rejects this. He says even if that’s the case, they should still feel free to join debates.
2. CORRECT. Hernandez says they should avoid these debates. Liu disagrees and thinks it is absurd to say celebrities should not join debates.
3. Hernandez says this, but Liu never directly comments on it.
4. Neither of them argue this. Both Hernandez and Liu are giving advice for what celebrities should do, not what the public should do.
5. For a disagreement answer to be correct, one person has to say yes, and one person has to say no.
    
   Liu disagrees with this. However, Hernandez does not say that it is the celebrities’ fault that people take their opinions seriously. He just thinks that since people do take them seriously, then celebrities should be careful in how they use their influence.