"Good fences make good neighbors", or so the saying goes. Some would have all fences and boundaries removed, now, in the interests of friendship and "sharing". These may be the same people who occasioned the building of the fences to begin with. People may have erected "fences" to remind the thoughtless of limits they failed to recognize.
Popular wisdom now has it that fences cause conflicts--instead of conflicts causing fences. Remember the story of the first murder among humankind, from the Book of Genesis? Cain slew his brother Abel because Abel's cattle had been eating his grain. This started a conflict that ended in murder. A fence would have been a better solution.
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