As a Buddhist I find myself meditating on a related question: When is the personal self born? It clearly does not exist at birth, and then some point, after we learn language, that voice of the ego develops. The ego that constantly chatters and is everywhere in past, the future, somewhere else, and never here and now.

For most people that ego goes unnoticed, until they look or listen for it. Upon reflection the ego (and the self) is quite obviously an illusion, yet, this constant chatter, the constant fear, anxiety, anger, remorse, from living in the past or future is source of so much violence among human beings.

Maybe this is off-topic but I feel that the "take what I want" attitude has is source in the unnoticed ego illusion.