Exercise4.2.15

PHI332 : The Class : Argument Evaluation : Analogy : Exercise4.2.15

Exercise4.2.15

The barred window and burglar argument (from 4.2.6 (2))

1. If [I had bars installed outside my windows, precisely to prevent burglars from getting in, and I] voluntarily [open a window to air my room], knowing of the [very small] chance it will issue in [entry by a burglar], and [because of a defect in the bars a burglar does enter], then [my] partial responsibility for the [burglar's] being there DOES itself give it a right to the use of [my room].
3. Thus [expelling the burglar] would be doing [the burglar] an injustice.
4. Then . . . if [I] voluntarily [admitted the burglar into my room, I] can NOT now kill [or expel] it, even in self-defense.

Hint: see Warren, para. 3, p. 342.

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