I know the OA, but would like to hear your thoughts and reasoning.


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.


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 than children are often ungrateful for parental sacrifices is not irrelevant to decidmg whether to have children in order to perpetuate one's values

E seems the best.

Dilworth says that people should ignore the fact that children are ungrateful in order to ensure their values live after them.

Travers contradicts this by saying that ungratefulness is because of the ignorance of values.

Thus, ungratefulness should be a consideration to have have children.

IMO E.

Can we have the OA?
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The one who flies is worthy. The one who is worthy flies. The one who doesn't fly isn't worthy

Is this a valid sentence?

Your reasoning ignores another fact that deserves consideration children s ingratitude for parental sacrifices usually stems from a wholesale rejection of parental values.

Any way my choice is E. Travers is supporting D.

A is not correct because there is no assumption

B is incorrect as it states the contrary

C is out of scope

D is neither supported nor denounced by T

E is saying that the fact than children are often ungrateful for parental sacrifices is not irrelevant (relevant) to decidmg whether to have children in order to perpetuate one's values

T is saying Rejection of PV -> children are often ungrateful for parental sacrifices

E.

If Travers's reply [i.e the fact that "ingratitude for parental sacrifices usually stems from a wholesale rejection of parental values"] is true, the people who want children in order to perpetuate their values should rethink if they want children.

E conveys this meaning

In mathematical terms, "the set of children having ingratitude for parental sacrifices due to wholesale rejection of parental values" form a sub-set of ungrateful children.

Guys, the OA is E.

Question source is Kaplan LSAT prep book
Question type is avg difficulty

thanks everyone.