Can I prevent a private variable from being changed by other objects of the same class?

Question

I'm multithreading a real-time game, and would like to prevent the state variables of objects on one thread from being set from another thread. This will make preventing race conditions a lot easier.

I would still like to be able to read the state of other objects, however. I'm intending to use a double buffer system, where one state object is used as the forebuffer and makes state changes while the other is used as the backbuffer and provides the (previous frame's) state to other objects. I need to be able to read state information from the backbuffer to make changes in the forebuffer.

The issue is that even if the variables setter is private, it's possible to change it from another object of the same class.

    public class State
    {
        //Some example state information
        public string StateVar1 { get; private set; }

        //This method will be farmed out to multiple other threads
        public void Update(State aDifferentStateObject)
        {
            StateVar1 = "I want to be able to do this";
            string infoFromAnotherObject = aDifferentStateObject.StateVar1; //I also want to be able to do this
            aDifferentStateObject.StateVar1 = "I don't want to be able to do this, but I can";
        }
    }

Answer 1

May not be the most direct solution, but one way to protect the properties is to use an interface.

public interface IState
{
    string StateVar1 { get; }
}

public class State:IState
{
    //Some example state information
    public string StateVar1 { get; private set; }

    //This method will be farmed out to multiple other threads
    public void Update(IState aDifferentStateObject)
    {
        StateVar1 = "I want to be able to do this";  // Allowed
        string infoFromAnotherObject = aDifferentStateObject.StateVar1; 
        aDifferentStateObject.StateVar1 = "I don't want to be able to do this, but I can"; // NOT allowed
    }
}