September 2006 LSAT
Section 2
Question 13
Emil on March 7 at 01:43AM
I think there are two ways to respond to this concern. First, for a strengthener our job is not to prove that argument is right, just to make it better. You're right that there are some scenarios where D doesn't make it better- if the fossil fuel industry is currently breaking even, then even a small decrease (that might not qualify as significant) could impact them. However, we don't need to show that this is a perfect analogy, only that it is a good one. Just because there may be one case where the strengthener doesn't help we cannot throw out the many cases in which it does.Andrew on March 7 at 05:27PM
Thank you Emil. That explanation does put me at ease. I appreciate your advice.