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Complete Question Explanation
(See the complete passage discussion here: lsat/viewtopic.php?t=13653)
The correct answer choice is (D)
This question asks for the risk that is generally considered by laypeople to be involuntarily assumed. The author provided the examples of an asteroid impact and a plane crash, so one of these examples will likely be found in the correct answer choice.
Answer choice (A): Traveling in outer space is not mentioned in the passage, so this cannot be the right answer.
Answer choice (B): This is an Opposite Answer, as the author provides skydiving as a specific example of risk that is undertaken voluntarily. This choice thus fails the Fact Test and should be ruled out of contention in response to this Must Be True question.
Answer choice (C): Firefighters do freely assume risk, but people tend to be supportive of them because the public tends to approve of the activity. Since this is not a risk that laypeople generally consider to be involuntarily incurred, it cannot be the right answer choice to this Must Be True question.
Answer choice (D): This is the correct answer choice. As discussed in the passage discussion, airplane travel is discussed by the author to exemplify the kind of risk that would generally be considered to be taken on involuntarily (in spite of the fact that, as the author points out, alternatives to plane travel might be an option in such situations).
Answer choice (E): This is an Opposite Answer, as mountain climbing is presented as an example of an activity in which participants voluntarily take on risk, so this choice can be confidently ruled out of contention.
(See the complete passage discussion here: lsat/viewtopic.php?t=13653)
The correct answer choice is (D)
This question asks for the risk that is generally considered by laypeople to be involuntarily assumed. The author provided the examples of an asteroid impact and a plane crash, so one of these examples will likely be found in the correct answer choice.
Answer choice (A): Traveling in outer space is not mentioned in the passage, so this cannot be the right answer.
Answer choice (B): This is an Opposite Answer, as the author provides skydiving as a specific example of risk that is undertaken voluntarily. This choice thus fails the Fact Test and should be ruled out of contention in response to this Must Be True question.
Answer choice (C): Firefighters do freely assume risk, but people tend to be supportive of them because the public tends to approve of the activity. Since this is not a risk that laypeople generally consider to be involuntarily incurred, it cannot be the right answer choice to this Must Be True question.
Answer choice (D): This is the correct answer choice. As discussed in the passage discussion, airplane travel is discussed by the author to exemplify the kind of risk that would generally be considered to be taken on involuntarily (in spite of the fact that, as the author points out, alternatives to plane travel might be an option in such situations).
Answer choice (E): This is an Opposite Answer, as mountain climbing is presented as an example of an activity in which participants voluntarily take on risk, so this choice can be confidently ruled out of contention.