LSAT 123 – Section 3 – Question 07

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June 2007

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Question QuickView	Type	Tags	Answer Choices	Curve This gives you an idea of how this question is “curved”— in other words, what level of scorer is likely to get this question right. It shows a model of scaled LSAT score vs probability of getting the question correct. It is based on student test results for each question. The gray bar extends from the score for a 25% chance, to the score for a 75% chance of getting the question correct. The black line in the middle is the score for a 50% chance of getting the question correct. The percentage at the right is the expected chance of someone with the same score as you on that PrepTest getting that question correct	Question Difficulty	Psg/Game/S Difficulty	Explanation
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

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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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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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