Exercise4.2.16

PHI332 : The Class : Argument Evaluation : Analogy : Exercise4.2.16

Exercise4.2.16

The open window and innocent person argument (from 4.2.6 (3))

1. If [I] voluntarily [open a window to air my room], knowing of the chance it will issue in [entry by anyone], and . . . [an innocent person does blunder or fall in], then [my] partial responsibility for the [innocent person's] being there DOES itself give it a right to the use of [my room].
3. Thus [expelling the innocent person] would be doing [the innocent person] 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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