LSAT 153 – Section 2 – Question 26

LSAT 153 - Section 2 - Question 26

June 2019

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT153 S2 Q26
+LR
Weaken +Weak
Link Assumption +LinkA
A
12%
159
B
46%
166
C
15%
158
D
13%
155
E
14%
158
156
163
170
 +Hardest 146.684 +SubsectionMedium

People should patronize businesses that meet high ethical standards, and the news media should help them to patronize those businesses. Therefore, when a business performs a notably ethical action, the news media should publicize that fact, for hearing of a business’s ethical conduct is often enough to motivate people to patronize that business.

Summarize Argument
The author concludes that when a business performs a notably ethical action, the news media should publicize the fact that the business performed that action. This is based on the following premises. People should purchase from businesses that meet high ethical standards. News media should help people to make purchases from business that meet high ethical standards. And, when people learn of a business’s ethical conduct, that often motivates them to purchase from that business.

Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that a business that performed a notably ethical action is a business that “meets high ethical standards.”

A
Some businesses that have high ethical standards do not actually meet those standards.
Having high ethical standards and meeting high ethical standards are different concepts, and the argument isn’t concerned with having high standards. The argument is only concerned with whether performing an ethical action constitutes meeting high ethical standards.
B
Meeting high ethical standards is primarily a matter of refraining from unethical behavior.
This points out why performing a notably ethical action doesn’t necessarily constitute meeting high ethical standards. We don’t know whether a business that performs a notably ethical action is refraining from unethical actions, so we don’t know that it’s meeting high standards.
C
It is relatively easy for a business to meet its ethical standards if it does not set them very high.
Whether a business sets its own standards and meets its own standards is a separate from whether a business meets high ethical standards. We have no reason to think high standards are based on a business’s own standards.
D
The news media is more likely to publicize a business’s unethical conduct than it is to publicize a business’s ethical conduct.
What the news media currently does has no impact on an argument concerning what news media should do. The author concludes that news media should do something; how often they currently do that thing doesn’t impact whether they should do it.
E
Some businesses that meet high ethical standards would not do so if they could not remain profitable while meeting those standards.
Profits have no clear connection to the argument. Even if a business is partially concerned with profits when it meets high ethical standards doesn’t change the fact that it meets high ethical standards.

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