LSAT 154 – Section 2 – Question 12

LSAT 154 - Section 2 - Question 12

September 2017

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT154 S2 Q12
+LR
Flaw or descriptive weakening +Flaw
Eliminating Options +ElimOpt
A
24%
160
B
0%
142
C
2%
151
D
8%
154
E
66%
163
132
150
167
 +Medium 144.659 +SubsectionEasier

Bauer: It is a mistake to criticize the city for being overzealous in its issuance of parking tickets. Can you imagine how much worse parking would be if parking regulations were not enforced?

Summarize Argument
The author concludes that the city isn’t being overzealous in its issuance of parking tickets. This is based on the assertion (in the form of a rhetorical question) that parking would be worse if parking regulations were not being enforced.

Identify and Describe Flaw
The author overlooks the possibility that the city could still enforce parking regulations, but just not as zealously as it currently is. The author cites to what would happen if parking regulations were not enforced. But this doesn’t tell us what would happen if the city just reduced how much it enforced the regulations, while still enforcing them.

A
misrepresents a criticism about the consequences of a practice as a criticism about the intrinsic value of the practice
The author doesn’t comment on the intrinsic value of enforcing parking regulations. We also have no evidence that the author misrepresents the criticism that the city is overzealous in issuance of tickets.
B
takes for granted that a certain authority should be respected merely because it is an authority
The author doesn’t rely on an an appeal to authority to support the conclusion. Rather, the author relies on a comment on the consequences of lack of parking regulation enforcement.
C
takes for granted that a particular practice is good simply because it is the way things have traditionally been done
The author doesn’t argue that enforcing parking regulations is good merely because we have traditionally enforced such regulations. Rather, the author points to the results of lack of enforcement.
D
confuses the cause of a certain phenomenon for an effect of that phenomenon
The author does not confuse cause and effect. The author does not conclude or assume that one thing causes another. Rather, the premise establishes that lack of enforcement leads to certain consequences.
E
defends the current situation merely by suggesting its superiority to an implausible alternative
The author, through a rhetorical question, suggests that the current level of enforcement is better than a complete lack of enforcement. But lack of enforcement isn’t a plausible alternative — the question is whether the city could enforce less zealously than it currently does.

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