Avimelech was punished for boorish behavior (“who is this woman”) – because he did not take advantage of classes in derech eretz that Avraham was giving. Thus, culpability is according to knowledge that the person has, or has access to. Thus, who is more barbarian – a barbarian who is not aware that you can live peacefully with others, or a modern person who has access to Torah and all kind of other facts and books. Can we say that the latter can not find meaningful information in the sea of facebook so he is essentially at the same point as the original barbarian?
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