Intolerance does not equal confrentation. It has more to do with rejecting nihelism and not understanding and defending your own beliefs and values. Allowing your neighbor's dog to bark without you mentioning because you want your own dog to bark is not tolerance, this is a shared culture. If you stole your neighbor's dog in the middle of the night and drove it a thousand miles away in hopes he will never return, this is not standing on principals, its agression. If your neighborhood collectively does not want chickens, and someone with a different culture moves in and has chickens, now everyone is listening to roosters and dealing with rodents, the solution is not to kill the chickens or to force the person out, but its also not to tolerate it if it effects you. There are ways of dealing with minor problems that don't involve threats of violence and theft. 

 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.