LSAT-22-1-18/LSAT-22-1-19

rt316

想不明白，烦请哪位给点指点。

22-1-18(D)/19(E)
Dillworth: More and more people are deciding not to have children

because of the personal and economic sacrifices children require

and because so often children are ungrateful for the considerable

sacrifices their parents do make for them: However, such

considerations have no bearing on the fact that their children

provide the best chance most people have of ensuring that their

values live on after them. Therefore, for anyone with deeply held

values, foregoing parenthood out of reluctance to make sacrifices

for which little gratitude can be expected would probably be a

mistake.
Travers: Your reasoning ignores another fact that deserves

consideration children's ingratitude for parental sacrifices

usually stems from a wholesale rejection of parental values.
18. Dillworth employs which one of the following argumentative

strategies?
(A) showing that considerations cited as drawbacks to given

course of action are not really drawbacks at all
(B) exposing as morally suspect the motives of people who would

make the choice that Dillworth rejects
(C) indirectly establishing that a given course of action is

obligatory by arguing that the alternative course of action is

prohibited
(D) distinguishing a category of person for whom the reason

presented in favor of a given course of action is more telling

than the reasons cited against that course of action
(E) using evidence that a certain course of action would be

appropriate under one set of conditions to arrive at a general

conclusion about what would be appropriate in all cases.

19. The point of Travers' rejoinder to Dillworth's argument is

that
(A) Dillowrth's assumption that children acquire values only from

their parents is mistaken
(B) it is a mistake to dismiss as irrelevant the personal and

economic sacrifices people are called on to make for the sake of

their children
(C) Dillworth has overlooked the well-known fact that people with

deeply held values not infrequently reject opposing values that

are deeply held by others.
(D) the desire to perpetuate their values should not be a factor

in people's decision to have children
(E) the fact that children are often ungrateful for parental

sacrifices is not irrelevant to deciding whether to have children

in order to perpetuate one's values

mindfree

I would say that these two questions are straightfoward. If you understand the question, you should get them.

D: People do not do sth. because of X. But for some people Y is more important than X. So these people should do sth.

T: But if X, then no Y.

bryan0806

有人可以解释一下19 吗

But if X, then no Y   是怎么得到的 ?

感谢!!

lawyer_1

D说：人们不要孩子有两个原因：sacrifices和ungrateful。但孩子可以ensuring that their

values live on after them。所以对那些deeply held values的人，没要孩子可能是一种错误

T说：ungrateful通常来源于完全抛弃父母的values。也就是ungrateful的理由还是要考虑，即E

bryan0806

懂了!!也就是values也可能是不要孩子的原因《E》

Thanks!!