It's not nearly as bad as the sound of children laughing.

The absolute horror.

for many people there's nothing beautiful in a child's laughter, especially if they don't have children of their own, so they are only getting the annoyance of noise without the good parts.

moreover, in my experience, when children play, 80% of their interactions is ugly insult-throwing, not laughter.

Also, why should the wishes of a group (children) be more important than those of another (those who wish to enjoy some quiet in their own home)?

In this case, it would be easy to reach a compromise. You want to play basketball? go to a proper public park. You want to sing your lungs off? go to a proper karaoke place. And so on.

Also, what's the beauty of a laughter achieved at the expense of others' pain?

If you don’t want to be exposed to other people live somewhere you can’t see your nearest neighbour.

and who are you to say what "civil society" means?

more importantly, attacking the messenger rather than rationally discuss their arguments is very suspicious...

Don't confuse "the messenger" with "the messenger's message, viewed in context with their other messages on related matters".

Or do, because they're both you.

nope, your comment is all about me personally, my mental health, not my ideas. It's the age old "argument" used to dismiss rational conversation: "no point discussing it, it comes from a crazy guy"

where? it's become nearly impossible because of overcrowding.

Nope! The only noise in my neighborhood that sometimes annoys me is loud music, but I like people to be able to enjoy themselves.

for many people enjoying themselves means being able to enjoy their own home without being forced to listen to other people excessive noise even through closed windows.

Way better than listening to traffic.

My old place was on a Stroad with cars flying by at 40+ mph. I hated the car noise with a passion. I'll take children having good time over traffic noise any day.

Turn up your music so you can't hear it? :)

people who dislike noise usually dislike music too

Interesting. Not sure how common that really is.

For me, I personally have times where I don't like some noises (annoying, etc). My solution at those times is generally to find some music I'm ok listening to (through headphones) and drown out the noise that way.

As you mention though, if it's "any noise at all", then that's going to be tough.