This way you can prevent judgments and insults like barbarism. It can be said that the reason a person might call someone else's cultural practices barbaric is based solely on the fact that they cannot understand that culture's reasoning. Rachels points out later in his article that “cultural relativism is a theory about the nature of morality.” He presents valid arguments that show that it is only a matter of opinion whether something is barbaric or not. The best argument presented is this: “The Greeks believed it was wrong to eat the dead, while the Callatians believed it was right to eat the dead. Therefore, eating the dead is neither objectively fought nor objectively wrong. It is simply a matter of opinion, which varies from culture to culture." Each practice is equally important to each culture, so saying that what one of these cultures does is barbaric can only be an opinion. A person may decide that because the Callatians eat the bodies of their dead father once he dies, this culture and the people within it are barbaric. Yes, that may be their opinion, but that opinion does not and will never define the culture and the people in it. To be able to define a culture or the people within it you have to really know the people within the practices that are being judged. Furthermore, it can be said that Christians are barbarians. While you may not believe these views of some cultures are true and for you as a person to be called barbaric because of your cultural and religious practices doesn't seem intellectual at all. Judging the way a person was raised and proceeding to call them barbaric can easily be seen as ignorance. Similarly, on page 367, in the last paragraph Montaigne says: “In view of this, a sound intellect will refuse to judge men simply by their outward actions, we must probe