The correct opinion is that persons have a right to a decibel level unharmful to themselves. Blasting noise onto somebody else's property violates that person's rights.
This also means that whatever decibel level the limit is, must be uniform throughout the State. Any decibel level harmful to persons in Nashua is harmful to persons in Pittsburg.
Furthermore, governments have no right to punish night shift workers by allowing loud noise (trucks, discotheques) during the daytime hours when night shift workers are trying to sleep while banning such noise in nighttime hours when day shift workers are trying to sleep.
Tom Alciere
While I agree that Individual Sovereign Human Beings shouldn't harm one another with sound(or anything else)...I can't imagine a "standard" could ever be determined since some people have a condition upon which, even very "minor" sounds create great pain...
Except, of course, in a situation of unanimous consent between all community inhabitants...for whatever "level" of sound they mutually agreed upon...
Furthermore, BEFORE someone else came into the community they would be required to read, understand, and also voluntarily consent and comply to that "level"...
They would NOT be permitted to locate themselves there...and then use the aggression/force/fraud of the "state" or mob "majority" to create a division and perpetrate discontent and disharmony amongst the current inhabitants...
Although, at the same time, no "policies" could or would be "adopted" that violated the Non-Aggression Principle...
I'm quite sure that, as long as we continue to repel and destroy the looters, bureaucrats, jackboots, and mercenaries...and continue to be students and advocates of the Non-Aggression Principle...
We'll do just fine...
Enjoy!