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The Romans had no such paradoxes, no confusion or anxiety over the right to life or privacy or dignity. Dignity was a privilege to the very, very few.

We take it very much for granted these days that an aversion to violence is more civilised than an attraction to it.

Right and wrong is not absolute or relative: it is geometrical.