The 1980s have been characterized as a period of selfish individualism that threatens the cohesion of society. But th...

Emil-Kunkin on April 29 at 03:21AM

This is tricky since the distinction is quite fine grained, but I do think there's a subtle meaning shift there. The author first references the period of selfish individualism, I'd take this to mean a period where selfishness predominates, think the greed is good scene from Wall Street. However, the later use is more asking to saying that people tend to follow their rational self interest. Not that they put self interest over everything else, but that it was one motivator. While this feels to me like a difference of degree, I think the individualism qualifier does give us just enough to say that these are two related but distinct phenomena.

iHAVE33FLAWSandAcommonLSATflawAINTone on April 29 at 09:37PM

Thank you! During the test, if I were to come across something like this, would you recommend I just identify there is a potential term switch, or is it best practice to identify exactly how, this one was just more difficult than I have been use to with them.

Emil-Kunkin on May 2 at 02:50AM

I would always be on the lookout for this, since this is a flaw that does pop up. However this is a really subtle example, and I'm honestly not sure if I would've seen it until I looked at the answer choices. That said, the more common way this pops up is like saying "some people thing we should increase housing. However since I don't want to build 100k new units, we shouldn't increase housing,

iHAVE33FLAWSandAcommonLSATflawAINTone on May 3 at 01:27AM

Thank you!