 In the case of the Yale shooting problem, the state of the gun’s being loaded in the aftermath of waiting, Loaded\((s_1)\), has at its only causal antecedent the fact that the gun is loaded in \(s_0\). The fact of Loaded\((s_0)\) screens off the fact that the victim is alive in \(s_0\) from the conclusion Loaded\((s_1)\). Similarly, the fact that the victim is alive in \(s_0\) screens off the fact that the gun is loaded in \(s_0\) from the conclusion that the victim is still alive in \(s_1\). In contrast, the fact that the victim is alive at \(s_1\) does not screen off the fact that the gun is loaded at \(s_1\) from the conclusion that the victim is still alive at \(s_2\). Thus, we can assign higher priority to the law of inertia with respect to both Load and Alive at \(s_0\), and we can conclude that the victim is alive and the gun is loaded at \(s_1\). The causal law for shooting then gives us the desired conclusion, namely, that the victim is dead at \(s_2\).