QUESTION TYPE: Flawed Reasoning
CONCLUSION: The press has an obligation to publish any information which is of interest to the public and which is not libelous.
REASONING: The press has a right to publish the information, so it should publish it.
ANALYSIS: As with many flawed reasoning arguments on the LSAT, this is ridiculous. I have a right to insult strangers, and to go around with a frown on my face all day. That doesn’t mean that I should, or that I am obliged to.
The mere fact that a newspaper is allowed to publish an article doesn’t mean that it must do so. Rights are not obligations.
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- The argument is specifically talking about stories which do pry into private lives.
- CORRECT. This is the error made in the stimulus. We are not obliged to do everything that we are permitted to do. Can you imagine such a world?
- The stimulus does not say that; they are merely saying that where the information is not libelous, then it ought to be published.
- No. They assume the opposite.
- They are only talking about non-libelous articles.
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