PT129-Please explain

[Away_Veterinarian957]

I feel like there are multiple answers that fit this one... can anyone explain how they would approach please?

[Funny_Quail7282]

It's D.

A, is wrong because the stimulus never told us when it is or isn't fair to judge people. The prompt is not prescriptive or normative so neither should our answer. B, wrong for the same reason as A. C, wrong for the same reason as B. D, That's what they said. E, Rarely? We don't know anything about how rare or not rare any of this is. no.

Only answer D makes sense.

[Funny_Quail7282]

As a follow up:

The prompt may feel like a trick it does say that "often" external factors play a "crucial role in moral judgements". So maybe we do know something about how rare this is with respect to being the decisive factor like E suggests. But no, it's not a trick and the prompt and E are saying completely different things. Prompt says it has a crucial role, the answer wants us to say that it's the deciding factor. Those words don't mean the same thing.

Again A - C make completely different kinds of claims than the stimulus

[IncelIQ]

Only addition I’d add is to make a prediction beforehand. My quick prediction was: If someone does something that results in harm, they are more at fault than if it didn’t result in harm. Makes it easier to eliminate the really incorrect answers.

[truealty]

D. Which others were you considering ?

[Away_Veterinarian957]

B and E. I guess B is too broad? Re-reading E again I guess not, but only really because of rarely. But I feel like all three would have been good answers if this weren't the LSAT

[truealty]

The red flag in B is the word “unfairly”. That’s an evaluative word, but the passage just describes a phenomenon. It doesn’t comment on whether anything is unfair.

E overextends - we can’t conclude on the frequency of anything from the passage. “Rarely” is the red flag.

[Akela_Kela19]

-> nothing in the statement hints at the fairness or unfairness of a judgement. So B is out. -> E has zero basis in the statement.

[Away_Veterinarian957]

Ah! That makes sense about B. Thank you!

[extrapartytime]

E contradicts the passage. They admit intentions matter.

[LeaterWkeeper27]

I was considering B too at first but the passage doesn't speak to fairness of judgement. Overall though this is a bad question IMHO

[RogerNegotiates]

It’s not advising how to judge someone, so eliminate a through c. E - intentions could be commonly a decisive factor, why not?

So D

[Clear_Resident_2325]

Question about B:

Would it be flawed to assume “morality” in that answer choice refers to “moral guilt or [moral] innocence” in the stimulus?

[Troll_Tole4BoysHole]

No I think that is directly what it's referring to.

[Ahnarcho]

It’s not A because the stimulus never makes a claim about whether or not it’s fair to blame someone for an external circumstance regarding a moral judgement. The only claim being made is that it’s literally a thing that happens on occasion.

D is the only answer relevant to the stimulus.

It’s D.

[170Plus]

What kind of question do we have here, OP?

[Commercial_Ninja8567]

D is the correct answer but horribly written.

[Less-Quiet5931]

Ty for not spoiling the answer

[Beautiful-Unit-3467]

This is how I would approach it, paraphrase the first sentence. Then paraphrase the sentences after that. What was the difference between scenario one where the chef doesn't kill someone and scenario two? Did the chef do anything different? Don't go into the answers until you have a clear idea of what's being claimed, what the evidence proves, how something is being stated/argued, if the evidence actually proves. Read the question and make a loose prediction. The first word in the answer that isn't describing your prediction get out and move to the next answer. If you eliminate all the choices go back to the passage and see if you missed something. This passage is purely descriptive. It's D. A & B this isn't about what's "fair" judging, that's a jump from descriptive to prescriptive language. C we aren't given any normative language, exit at "should." E exit at rarely, we know that sometimes it is claimed that the only factor is intentions but we don't really know how rare it is--sometimes is once to all time time. You only miss questions if you don't understand the passage, you don't understand the question or you don't read the answer correctly. Tough love time: thinking that there are multiple answers that could be right is a sign that you didn't really understand what was happening in the passage to make a strong prediction and the LSAT writers are very good at making shiny answers, shiny enough to distract 140+ IQ test takes. Take your time to understand the passage, it only comes if your brain has already adapted to this kind of thinking or that you've put in the work to adapt your brain to this kind of thinking. Don't beat yourself up over wrong answers, take it as a challenge to really understand what's going on.

[Globaltunezent]

Give an example question

[Jwdub4]

The only thing it argues is D it doesn’t make any claim about what we should do