Rome's gladiatorial games may be the high water mark in history on that graft, because it's hard to find anything quite so brazen about the commercialization of torture and death as a spectator event. In one day 400 tigers fought with bulls and elephants; On another day, 400 bears were slain at caligula. If the animals wished to compromise, not fight each other, they were stung by hot irons or shot with arrows. Can you just stop for a minute and think about this? I mean, listen to the scale of what we're talking about. This becoming eventually, probably advertising that you had a giraffe and a monkey and an elephant might be enough to