LSAT 123 – Section 3 – Question 07

LSAT 123 - Section 3 - Question 07

June 2007

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PT123 S3 Q07
+LR
Point at issue: disagree +Disagr
A
3%
141
B
82%
152
C
6%
143
D
6%
146
E
3%
142
126
135
144
 +Easier 144.044 +SubsectionEasier

Antonio: One can live a life of moderation by never deviating from the middle course. But then one loses the joy of spontaneity and misses the opportunities that come to those who are occasionally willing to take great chances, or to go too far.

Marla: But one who, in the interests of moderation, never risks going too far is actually failing to live a life of moderation: one must be moderate even in one’s moderation.

Speaker 1 Summary
Antonio argues that living a life of moderation means missing out on spontaneity and the opportunities that come from taking chances. To support this, Antonio defines a life of moderation as one which always stays on the middle course.

Speaker 2 Summary
Marla disagrees with Antonio’s definition, and instead argues that a life of moderation must actually include sometimes going too far (and thus straying from the middle course). How so? Because someone living moderately must even be moderate in their moderation. In other words, to be truly moderate, one must sometimes be immoderate.

Objective
We’re looking for something Antonio and Marla disagree about. Their disagreement is about what constitutes a life of moderation, specifically whether it ever includes immoderate actions.

A
whether it is desirable for people occasionally to take great chances in life
As with (D) and (E), neither Antonio nor Marla talks about what is desirable for people to do in life. Their discussion is just about what counts as a life of moderation, but neither one claims that moderation or any other lifestyle is actually desirable.
B
what a life of moderation requires of a person
Antonio thinks that a life of moderation means always staying on the middle course, and Marla thinks that it requires sometimes taking chances or going too far. This, then, is what the speakers disagree about: the definition of a “life of moderation.”
C
whether it is possible for a person to embrace other virtues along with moderation
Neither speaker brings up other virtues or talks about how they interact with moderation. Both Antonio and Marla discuss how moderation is affected by sometimes going too far, but no one suggests that going too far is a virtue.
D
how often a person ought to deviate from the middle course in life
Like with (A) and (E), neither speaker talks about what people ought to do. Antonio and Marla are just discussing what it means to live a life of moderation, but they don’t bring up if that’s what people should do or not.
E
whether it is desirable for people to be moderately spontaneous
Similarly to (A) and (D), Antonio and Marla never mention whether spontaneity (or anything else) is desirable. Their conversation is about what moderation means, not about whether people should be moderate, spontaneous, or anything else.

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