Imagine now, however, that such restrictions were proposed by a neighbourhood, whose residents asserted: this is our home and we ought to have a say—and indeed, a veto—on who may or may not enter. Is this the point at which my freedom to invite in whomsoever I choose trumps your freedom to tell me who may or may not enter ‘our home’—turning your right to veto my choices into a duty to mind your own business? If not, perhaps that point comes when the ‘home’ in question is the suburb, or the county, or the city, or the province. The further we get from the single-occupant apartment model, the
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