Exactly. And part of what Brits did was to encourage or force people to stop referring to stealing by another other name but stealing. The raiding was glorified as something every able man ought to do. That raiding involve most of the time killing lots of people.
Maasai justified their raiding by claiming all the cattle were theirs by birthright and they were just coming for it. That their god(Enkai) had created Dorobo with a dog and next Maasai with cattle...and everyone else with something else.
Got ya. A sort of code so that they are at ease with a more less permanent state and way of life. A bit like terrorists referring to themselves as martyrs.