Yes. They won’t be able to but they can.
Reminds me of a riddle:
- A hungry dog is standing by a river and there is a steak on the other side, but he’s not allowed to cross the river. What does he do?
- Starve?
- He swims across and eats the steak.
- But you said he’s not allowed to!
- He’s not allowed to, but he does.
Maybe next time you are joining a friend group ask a different question.
I like your coworkers question. I was in the Navy and have a deep respect for the ocean. I have been in the middle of the Pacific near a storm. Our ship was in danger a couple times. Being woken up to general quarters alarms and practically standing on my bed rack was an unforgettable experience. The ocean is scary and it doesn’t give a fuck about you. It will kill you and ask for more. Even on a nice calm day, it can kill you if you don’t respect it.
Space is the type of thing that scares the ocean.
I’m way more scared of the ocean. I’ve had to change plans multiple times because of tsunami warnings but I’ve never really even had to think about the dangers of space. Plus realistically any space based threat I face is like a societal problem whereas I could just get a little careless at a beach alone and I’m dead.
What’s a warrant if not a court-signed invitation to enter a suspect’s house?
But it’s not an invitation from an owner/occupant. I say it’s no good. Or at least not directly, of course just like with regular police the warrant is useful in coercing an actual invitation.
On the other hand, the implicit invitation offered by the welcome mat by the door does provide entrance.
Ok, then. What if the judge signing the warrant is an occupant of the property in question?
Sure that would basically never happen, but suppose the vampire manages to trick the judge into signing a warrant that covers the judge’s own house or maybe some place the judge frequents.
That’s silly. Vampires can only enter when invited. A warrant is not an invitation.
What if the judge uses eminent domain to legally take ownership of the house when handing out the warrent? The state would become legal owner of the house, sends in the vampire police, and hand it back to the original owner later?
I like the rule lawyering, but the fuzzy conception of vampire law is that they require an invitation to enter a home, but nobody would expect an abandoned home to stop them, indicating a holistic rather than a technical definition. The state can repossess the home, but if the entire police force is vampires they’ll be unable to cross the threshold so long as those living there view it as a home.
For example, a worker drone that keeps a bed at their office and lives there part-time, it makes sense that a vampire could enter their office without invitation because it isn’t a home despite living there. However, alter the situation to an even sadder worker drone that lives full-time in their office and considers it to be their home, can the vampire enter? I posit nay, the vampire will need an invitation to enter their sad office home.
Or if the actual owner is the bank that the resident is in debt with. You fail to pay your debt and the bank invites repossessers and the police to evict you and take your stuff.
If I was a vampire, I’d definitely look for a job as a repossesser or a cop.
It’s not about house ownership. You can be in someone elses house and still not let them in.
The concept is that the people INSIDE the house must let the vampire OUTSIDE in. A warrant doesn’t accomplish that.
So you could steal a vampires house by going there when he’s not home, and then just not let him come back in?
Maybe this is why they dont like to go out much.
A warrant is a government invite by the laws of man anyone presenting a legal warrant for your home is required to allow you entry as a result the vampire may enter your home provided they are actually a cop and haven’t stolen it from a cop or glamored a judge into giving them the warrant ie the warrant must be legal and the vampire most actually be a cop
