June 2010 LSAT Section 4 Question 14

Human beings can live happily only in a society where love and friendship are the primary motives for actions. Yet ec...

rswafra on July 6, 2022

Explain why A is wrong? Explanation missing!

I was torn between A and D and while I understand why D is right, I'm not sure I know why A isn't the right answer (is it out of scope?)

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Emil-Kunkin on July 9, 2022

Hi rswafra,

We are told that humans need love and friendship to be primary motivations to be happy- and that we can satisfy economic needs without love and friendship. The correct answer is essentially a must be true- it would be a conclusion to the set of statements already presented.

We cannot prove that A is the case- that people can only be happy when economic utility is a motivator. We do not know that economic utility being a motivator stops love and friendship from being motivators as well. We know we must have those things to be happy, but nowhere are we told that these motivations cannot coexist with economic utility as another motivator as well.