LSAT 106 | Section 3 | Logical Reasoning: Q14

LR Question 14 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: If citizens do not exercise their right to vote…

QUESTION TYPE: Identify the Conclusion

CONCLUSION: People should vote.

REASONING: An individual vote doesn’t make much of a difference. But if everyone stops voting, our society will crumble. You should not do something that would have bad consequences if everyone did it.

ANALYSIS: There’s a lot of information in this passage, and no clear terms that indicate a conclusion.

To find a conclusion, always ask yourself: why are they telling me this?

This point of the passage is to provide a warning to every citizen: vote!

It’s not okay for you to pretend it’s fine to stay at home on voting day, just because your vote won’t make a difference. If everyone did the same thing, society would crumble.

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1. CORRECT. This is the point. The author has told us all of these things to convince us that every citizen has a duty to vote.
2. Theft was just an example of a parallel situation. A single theft isn’t so bad, but mass theft would destroy society. The author hasn’t said whether not voting is as bad as stealing.
3. The author didn’t talk about setting a good example by voting. You hurt society even if no one realizes you don’t vote. The reason not voting is bad is because society would collapse if everyone stopped voting.
4. The second sentence directly contradicts this. The problem with not voting is that society would collapse if everyone stopped voting.
5. This isn’t even true: the author didn’t predict that everyone would become dishonest. Theft is just an example of an act that’s not harmful if one person does it, but very harmful if everyone does it.