LR Reasoning Supplemental #5 Q. 491

[Jkjones3789]

Hello, So with this Flaw question I was able to cancel A B and E and was down to C and D. I went with C because I thought that was what was occurring with the violation of their explicit laws and not the other maybe implicit laws, but it turns out its D. Can you tell me exactly why its not C and why it is D? And also the name of the flaw if its one of the Common Errors. I did draw out the Conditional statement but that didn't seem to do much. Thank You

[Lucas Moreau]

Hello, Jkjones,

The answer isn't C because the stimulus isn't claiming that any unpunished violation of any rule will lead to chaos, merely a routine pattern of unpunished violations of rules. Also the stimulus isn't saying that the unpunished violation of one type of rule or another will lead to chaos, just a systemic pattern of unpunished rule violation.

The answer is D because the conclusion is too strong - "never allow" goes too far. A single unpunished violation, or a handful, does not necessarily mean that a routine pattern of unpunished rule violations will happen after that, which is what D is saying.

The flaw is probably Overextrapolation - assuming that a few instances of something mean a routine pattern of that thing, in this case, unpunished rule violation.

Hope that helps,
Lucas Moreau