LSAT 150 | Section 3 | Logical Reasoning: Q13

LR Question 13 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: Hendry: Most employee strikes should be legally permitted…

QUESTION TYPE: Point at Issue

ARGUMENTS:

Hendry: Most strikes should be allowed, but university strikes harm students. I think that strikes should not be permitted if they harm customers, so university strikes should not be permitted.

Menkin: That principle would mean employee strikes should almost never be allowed.

ANALYSIS: Hendry doesn’t like university strikes, and uses the principle to justify it. Menkin has a very simple reply – they think Hendry’s principle would make most strikes illegal.

Note that we know very little about Menkin. We don’t actually know if Menkin supports strikes, or agrees with Henkin that university strikes should not be permitted. We only know that Menkin thinks Hendry’s principle would lead to most strikes being illegal. This means that Menkin thinks most strikes hurt customers and thus violate the principle.

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1. We know Hendry thinks students are customers, but we don’t know Menkin’s stance. We can’t say they disagree.
2. CORRECT. Hendry doesn’t like strikes that hurt customers, but thinks most strikes should be permitted. This tells us that they don’t view most strikes as hurting customers.
    
   Menkin, on the other hand, thinks Hendry’s principle would lead to very few strikes being permitted. This shows us that Menkin thinks most strikes hurt customers.
3. Hendry doesn’t think university strikes should be permitted. But we don’t actually know what Menkin thinks on this.
4. Hendry thinks most employee strikes should be permitted. But Menkin doesn’t say anything about whether they should – only that they think Hendry’s principle would make most strikes illegal.
5. Henkin clearly thinks faculty strikes harm students. Menkin doesn’t say anything specifically about this, so we can’t say they disagree.

Recap: The question begins with “Hendry: Most employee strikes should be legally permitted”. It is a Point at Issue question. Learn how to master LSAT Point at Issue questions on the LSAT Logical Reasoning question types page.