LSAT 88, Logical Reasoning I, Q6, LSATHacks

LR Question 6 Explanation, by LSATHacks

QUESTION TEXT: Video games are commonly criticized as morally corrupting…

QUESTION TYPE: Complete the Argument

CONCLUSION: Video games won’t be criticized as morally corrupting in the future.

REASONING: Novels were once also considered morally corrupting, but now it’s silly to suggest that.

ANALYSIS: This argument looks at a past situation to draw predictions about a current situation. The stimulus’ logic suggests that perceptions of video games will follow the same trajectory as novels’.

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1. “Most” makes this answer choice overly broad.
2. The word “should” gives us a suggestion, which doesn’t complete the argument about what the author thinks will happen to video games.
3. CORRECT. The argument implies that perceptions about video games will go the same way as those about novels/movies/rock music – will go away.
4. Like B, this answer choice is giving a suggestion (“should”). Nothing in the stimulus points to condemning video games; with the comparison to novels, the author is trying to suggest the opposite, that we’d eventually embrace it.
5. This is wrong. The stimulus already says that video games allow people to imagine themselves transgressing conventional morality. No one is making this suggestion.

Recap: The question begins with “Video games are commonly criticized as morally corrupting”. It is a Complete the Argument question. Learn more about LSAT Complete the Argument questions in our guide to LSAT Logical Reasoning question types.

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