The difference begin, in my philosophy... no one will put a government gun to your head if you do those things while the elevator is otherwise EMPTY.
Further, social strictures used to have more force than law. Ostracism was one of the worst things that could happen to a person. Now, under the protection of the laws of the government you are trying to excuse... these freaks and morons are a protected species. People are ACTIVELY prevented from protecting themselves or their property by those laws.
This is not a system that can last long without it truly decaying into violence and chaos.
Well, if you fart, smoke and so forth, some of the behavior might remain as residue for those boarding soon.
Again, gets back to a murky fair freedoms for all issue.
If we were all living in 1776 with far greater distances today between our neighbors compared to now, we would not IMO be facing the limitations we need to today.
My neighbor supposedly should have the common sense to not go on his roof to stare into the windows of neighbors that fences had prevented in the past.
In a thin population, there is a lot of give.
In a dense population, there is a lot of take.
Population dictates a lot of what is happening and that was my point.