The reality is already absurd. I agree with you, it makes you're head spin.
But there are things I can't discount: for example I can't tell whether or not the woman who brought the suit is litigious or desperate. It seems that she didn't just jump into court over this. I'm inclined to sympathize with her as I've suffered the same problems, all of my life.
Maybe I'm romantic, but I seem to recall a time when people voluntarily cooperated with neighbors. In those days politeness was a virtue; now it's regarded a weakness.
There are other factors not mentioned: for example around 30 years ago architects forgot how to put windows in office buildings, and started pumping the air in from the basement and through a matrix of tubes. Office space got more expensive and companies started stuffing employees into offices like Vienna sausages in a can.
These are the same employers who make pissing in a cup a prerequisite to hiring.
A major facet of the root of this is the invasion of privacy. Having our 'business' in the street and the street in our bedrooms is screwing with people's heads. Our society, no longer content with just soap, consumes gallons noxious concoctions to hide its smell. I wonder if deep down, we think we're putrefying. At the same time we call down thunder from heaven, defiant over trivialities like the right to wear cheap cologne, believing this to be emblematic of our freedom.
So now there's a lawsuit; sew the wind and reap the whirlwind.
84 posts before the REAL problem was even mentioned - the windows don’t open.
Funny how many ills can be cured by fresh air.
And how many are caused by office building air.