In your opinion are fences used more to keep things in (pets or kids) or to keep things out (random people or zombies). Someone I know is building a fence. Someone asked them who they are trying to keep out. They responded they were trying to keep there dog in. So we began to discuss if fences are used more to keep things in or keep things out. In apocalypse situations that usually build a wall to keep whatever is killing them out, but usually backfires as they are now trapped. We doubted if a fence is going to keep a thief or criminal out. So what do you think?
It depends on the purpose but ultimately fences do a good job at keeping people out just as well is in if they didn't work so well rich people and politicians wouldn't have them around their homes militaries wouldn't have them around their bases and both keeping things in and keeping things out applies in the case of prisons
Reminded me of Frost's poem: Spoiler Mending Wall Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone, But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean, No one has seen them made or heard them made, But at spring mending-time we find them there. I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again. We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each. And some are loaves and some so nearly balls We have to use a spell to make them balance: ‘Stay where you are until our backs are turned!’ We wear our fingers rough with handling them. Oh, just another kind of out-door game, One on a side. It comes to little more: There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’ Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder If I could put a notion in his head: ‘Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it Where there are cows? But here there are no cows. Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.’ I could say ‘Elves’ to him, But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather He said it for himself. I see him there Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed. He moves in darkness as it seems to me, Not of woods only and the shade of trees. He will not go behind his father's saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’
My fence recently fell over and... wow, never knew I had so many neighbors. Also my dog ran into my neighbors property through the breach. So both. Fences do both
Keep out definitely, in my house, my parents built a fence across the drive way, its connected to the side of the house to the other side of our neighbors house. its confusing to imagine you have to see it. but they had it built bc our neighbors would always watch us all the time, like literally stalk us
Both but if I had to choose keep out . I don’t have any pets to have to have to worry about keeping my pets in .
Depends on purpose, so the answer is both. For agricultural animals, pets, small humans it's primarily keeping stuff in, you don't want them running out into streets or highways in search for greener pastures. I do remember having a rabbit as a child where you'd have people randomly come in and ask if it was yours because it was just running around outside on the curb talking to them. For private properties such as industry or houses you don't want people looking/walking in for the most part. There's nothing interesting if your neighbor can sit out in the garden with 10 guests and my fat ass is just sitting there half naked sweating like I'm about to be mummified while my pale skin is blinding them all.
It's both but for but objectively speaking the fences are built to partition and keep your lawn/backyards for your own private uses. While i doubt it would works to deter determined criminal from raiding or breaking into the house it kept off the opportunistic criminal from mischief.
Fences are way too pitiful. What you need is a nice stone block, cinder block, or cement wall! Bonus points if you go for higher then 30m and 9m deep. Though i guess with the normal plots of land most residential areas allow, it would look more like a tower rather then a wall....