LSAT 134 – Section 3 – Question 05

LSAT 134 - Section 3 - Question 05

October 2011

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PT134 S3 Q05
+LR
Point at issue: disagree +Disagr
Value Judgment +ValJudg
A
1%
157
B
1%
153
C
1%
159
D
97%
164
E
1%
156
120
126
137
 +Easiest 146.872 +SubsectionMedium

Peter: Unlike in the past, most children’s stories nowadays don’t have clearly immoral characters in them. They should, though. Children need to learn the consequences of being bad.

Yoko: Children’s stories still tend to have clearly immoral characters in them, but now these characters tend not to be the sort that frighten children. Surely that’s an improvement.

Speaker 1 Summary
Peter argues that children’s stories should include clearly immoral characters (which they usually did in the past, but now do not). Why? Because it’s important to teach children the consequences of being bad.

Speaker 2 Summary
Yoko doesn’t make an argument, but does make several factual claims. First, modern children’s stories usually do have clearly immoral characters. Second, these characters are less frightening than in the past. And finally, it’s a good thing to avoid frightening children.

Objective
We’re looking for a disagreement between Peter and Yoko. The two disagree about whether modern children’s stories usually contain clearly immoral characters.

A
should be less frightening than they are
Neither speaker makes this claim. Yoko is the only one to talk about stories being frightening, but never says that stories should be less frightening than they currently are.
B
tend to be less frightening than earlier children’s stories were
Yoko agrees with this, but Peter doesn’t express an opinion. Peter doesn’t talk about children’s stories being frightening at all, either now or in the past.
C
differ significantly in overall quality from earlier children’s stories
Neither speaker talks about the overall quality of children’s stories, currently or in earlier times, let alone to compare the two.
D
tend to have clearly immoral characters in them
Peter disagrees with this but Yoko agrees, so this is the speakers’ disagreement. Peter states that modern stories, unlike earlier ones, don’t usually have clearly immoral characters. Yoko, however, says that modern stories usually do have clearly immoral characters.
E
should help children learn the consequences of being bad
Peter agrees with this, but Yoko doesn’t express an opinion. Yoko never discusses what kinds of lessons children’s stories should impart on their readers.

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