September 1995 LSAT Section 2 Question 10

A fundamental illusion in robotics is the belief that improvements in robots will liberate humanity from "hazardous a...

Kweb1016 on April 13, 2021

Can someone explain why B is incorrect and why E is correct?

From my perspective, the passage author is arguing that the opposing position regarding robots is that they will eliminate ALL demeaning work. I arrived at this because of the word liberate; to me, this word feels absolute, not relative, and that is why I didn't choose E. B, though not perfect, I felt was better because he essentially says that robots will require demeaning work for them to work, so demeaning work cannot be made extinct. It sounds circular, if I assume liberate equals all demeaning work will be eliminated, not some. Sorry for the long reply. Thanks

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Emil-Kunkin on September 27 at 01:18AM

I agree that there is a slight incongruity between the term eliminate and the passage- but it does still point out an issue with the argument. The author thinks that they won't eliminate something bad, they will only substitute it for something else bad. The argument is still incorrect for the second part- that it only substitutes. We can attack that rationale by showing that it does not only substitute, it actually reduces the amount. Im not sure how I see how this would be circular. The author didn't say if can never be extinct, only that robots will not eliminate it.