LSAT 64, Logical Reasoning I, Q12, LSATHacks

LR Question 12 Explanation, by LSATHacks

QUESTION TEXT: The government is being urged to prevent organizations…

QUESTION TYPE: Principle – Strengthen

CONCLUSION: We shouldn't censor groups that argue it's good to eat raw meat.

REASONING: The author claims that it isn't a good idea to censor political groups for having opinions that could harm people.

ANALYSIS: The author tries an argument by analogy. But analogies can't definitively prove a point. Even if it's true that we shouldn't censor political groups, food groups might be a special case. We might want to censor food groups even if we leave political groups alone.

We need a reason that shows that the reasoning from the political analogy applies to raw meat groups.

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1. We don't know if many people think eating raw meat is a good idea.
2. This doesn't help. Maybe it's in the best interests of society to avoid the dangers of raw meat.
3. This tells us what raw food advocates should do. It doesn't tell us what the government should do.
4. CORRECT. If fear of danger is our only reason, then this principle tells us we have no good reason to censor raw foodists.
5. The argument is talking about what the government should do. It's not talking about what we should tell the government to do.

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