If you decide that anything some society has determined to be acceptable, you'll not find very many things to call barbaric. Certainly you'll find no cultures w

If you decide that anything some society has determined to be acceptable, you'll not find very many things to call barbaric. Certainly you'll find no cultures which engage in barbaric behaviour, which is ironic since the original meaning was basically "anyone who isn't Greek". To hold that no culture is barbaric can be seen as a very enlightened position, but it is of course also a position that does not provide any moral guidance at all with respect to established customs, such as for example Kaluli manhood rituals where the young boys must ingest the sperm of their elders by the Anus (a practice much reviled by the nearby Etoro who instead prescribe oral ingestion).