An idea from Essays

People call barbarous whatever isn’t done at home: “every one gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.” Eating a dead enemy is grim. Torturing a living neighbor in the name of religion, as France was doing then, is worse.

From Essays by Michel de Montaigne

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