My rights do not end where yours begin. My rights end when I inflict harm. Modern thinking fails when it assumes the purpose of law is to prevent harm. If the purpose of law is to prevent your neighbor from having the ability to inflict harm, then taken to it's logical outcome, you and your neighbor will be jailed preemptively. Nor is it the purpose to ensure you have rights only to what you need; that way lies the elimination of personal property rights. As the Bard wrote, "Oh reason not the need.." Your neighbor may not "need" a flamethrower now, but at some point, you might find you wish he had.
My rights do not end where yours begin. My rights end when I inflict harm. Modern thinking fails when it assumes the purpose of law is to prevent harm. If the purpose of law is to prevent your neighbor from having the ability to inflict harm, then taken to it's logical outcome, you and your neighbor will be jailed preemptively. Nor is it the purpose to ensure you have rights only to what you need; that way lies the elimination of personal property rights. As the Bard wrote, "Oh reason not the need.." Your neighbor may not "need" a flamethrower now, but at some point, you might find you wish he had.