Q17 - Glen: An emphasis on law's

[bbirdwell]

These can be confusing question-types. It's important that we start with the first person's conclusion and track the second person's statement carefully. The word "primary" is always important.

Glen says the primary role should be to create virtuous citizens.

Sara says, BUT this (Glen's conclusion) would encourage govt to determine what's virtuous, which would be more dangerous than being overprotective of individual rights.

Here, it's reasonable to infer that "more dangerous" is a bad thing.

Further, it's reasonable from that point to infer that Sara does not want the bad thing to happen, as partially indicated by the word "but."

(A) out of scope
(B) We don't know Sara's opinion on the general subject of virtuousness.
(C) We don't know Glen's opinion on danger.
(D) tempting! Sara doesn't actually say that the emphasis leads to (causes) overprotection of rights.
(E) Glen agrees. Sara, by reasonable inference, disagrees.


#officialexplanation

[zainrizvi]

Not sure how Sara disagrees with (E). She says its more dangerous than individuals rights, so do we assume she means that she'd be against cultivation of virtue?

[jeanne'sjean]

(D) tempting! Sara doesn't actually say that the emphasis leads to (causes) overprotection of rights.

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Could we say Sara even doesn't say the emphasis on law's purely procedural side? She seems only attack Glen's assertion that what is law's primary role.

[JinZ551]

regarding answer choice D, someone thinks Glen would agree, but what I think is Glen says nothing about government overprotection.

can we make an inference from
"a concern with personal rights that leads to the individual's indifference to society's welfare"
to
"government's being overprotective of individual rights"?

And about Sasa's opinion on this, I once thought Sasa would agree, but most LSAT explaination on this says Sasa did not say she agrees that emphasis XYZ would RESULT IN blablabla.
Is Sasa only base her conclusion on the comparison of 2 undesirable results but says nothing about the cause of the result of government overprotection?

[JinZ551]

(C) We don't know Glen's opinion on danger.


I think Glen does not express her opinion on "allowing government to decide what constitutes virtuous behavious among citizens"

anyone agree or disgree?

[Laura Damone]

Agreed! We know Glen believes that the primary role of law should be to create virtuous citizens, but we don't know Glen's opinion on allowing governments to decide what constitutes virtuous behavior among citizens. That's a pretty major term shift.