As for alternatives: "Simply try to prevent your house from being robbed" perhaps? I suspect that a very small fraction of LWers are burglars or promoters of burglary.

Burglary is an integral part of my family heritage. That's how we earned our passage to Australia. Specifically, burgaling some items a copper kettle, getting a death sentence and having it commuted to life in the prison continent.

With those kind of circumstances in mind I say burglary is ethically acceptable when, say, your family is starving but usually far too risky to be practical or advisable.