Passive avoidance can be securing your space against rooster weilding agents or any other agent of undesirable elements.  What one considers "their own space" is relative, but it needn't be the whole world, there's plenty of physical space available. 

 This is true, however when people choose to live in close proximity to oneanother, its advisable they secure a covenent on the properties at the time they are established to abide by neighborly rules, presumably in their common interest.