[babyface00]

“Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson is inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself,” wrote the great Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero. “They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons and lives from violence of any and every kind by all the means within their power.” (www.claremont.org)

This predates Jesus Christ by about half a century, BTW (its not a new idea)

[newgeezer]

I see your meaningless half-century, and raise you a millenium (or so):

That which has been is that which will be, And that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun. -- Ecclesiastes 1:9

;-)