I'm too far removed so I'm sure all the news I read is propaganda, but from first principles, you're on your front doorstop, and your nearest neighbor is 50km a

I'm too far removed so I'm sure all the news I read is propaganda, but from first principles, you're on your front doorstop, and your nearest neighbor is 50km away, and you're shining a light back and forth to communicate with them. Your position is that there's no way some asshole can drive around with a truck with their headlights on and mess things up for you?