medium · LSAT Logical Reasoning
The senator claimed that the new regulation was in the public interest. However, since the senator has a significant financial stake in the industry being regulated, the regulation is clearly not in the public interest.
The argument is logically flawed because it
- dismisses a claim by pointing to the interests of the person who advanced it rather than examining the claim on its merits
- takes for granted that elected officials invariably act to advance their own financial interests
- fails to allow that a single regulation can serve both an industry's interests and the public's interests at once
- shifts between two distinct senses of the expression the public interest over the course of the argument
- assumes that the senator's claim must be false simply because it has never been independently verified
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