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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9225448" data-attributes="member: 6801845">One other thing I've been noodling over when it comes to good and evil is the color blue.&nbsp; Now, before you accuse me of adding something special to my morning tea, let me explain.&nbsp; The color blue doesn't objectively exist.&nbsp; A specific wavelength of light that we interpret as blue does exist, but as far as we know we've only distinguished blue as a separate color in modern times.&nbsp; The ancient Greeks for example didn't even have a word for it (<a href="https://lethbridgenewsnow.com/2021/02/09/the-curious-case-of-the-missing-color-blue/#:~:text=It%20turns%20out%20the%20color,see%E2%80%9D%20blue%20until%20modern%20times!" target="_blank">1</a>).&nbsp; To this day, some cultures can't distinguish between shades of green and blue, although they can distinguish shades of what we see as green that most people can't (<a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-didn-t-even-see-the-colour-blue-until-modern-times-evidence-suggests" target="_blank">2</a>).&nbsp; For that matter, Russians have different words for dark blue and light blue and can spot the difference much more quickly than most westerners.So something we think of as an objective thing, a color we see on a regular basis when we look up during the day unless we live in Seattle is only something we have a word for, and only distinguish from other colors because of cultural norms.So we can confidently say that the color blue doesn't really exist, just like good and evil do not.&nbsp; But if I want to tell you the color of my wife's car I can be confident that when I say it's blue you'll know what I'm talking about.&nbsp; Unless of course you happen to be a member of the Himba tribe.&nbsp; So when we talk about acts that are intrinsically good and evil, people generally know what we're talking about unless you're a philosophy major.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />That's useful for the game because it gives us a shared common starting point, one that can be easily ignored if you want.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 9225448, member: 6801845"] One other thing I've been noodling over when it comes to good and evil is the color blue. Now, before you accuse me of adding something special to my morning tea, let me explain. The color blue doesn't objectively exist. A specific wavelength of light that we interpret as blue does exist, but as far as we know we've only distinguished blue as a separate color in modern times. The ancient Greeks for example didn't even have a word for it ([URL='https://lethbridgenewsnow.com/2021/02/09/the-curious-case-of-the-missing-color-blue/#:~:text=It%20turns%20out%20the%20color,see%E2%80%9D%20blue%20until%20modern%20times!']1[/URL]). To this day, some cultures can't distinguish between shades of green and blue, although they can distinguish shades of what we see as green that most people can't ([URL='https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-didn-t-even-see-the-colour-blue-until-modern-times-evidence-suggests']2[/URL]). For that matter, Russians have different words for dark blue and light blue and can spot the difference much more quickly than most westerners. So something we think of as an objective thing, a color we see on a regular basis when we look up during the day unless we live in Seattle is only something we have a word for, and only distinguish from other colors because of cultural norms. So we can confidently say that the color blue doesn't really exist, just like good and evil do not. But if I want to tell you the color of my wife's car I can be confident that when I say it's blue you'll know what I'm talking about. Unless of course you happen to be a member of the Himba tribe. So when we talk about acts that are intrinsically good and evil, people generally know what we're talking about unless you're a philosophy major. ;) That's useful for the game because it gives us a shared common starting point, one that can be easily ignored if you want. [/QUOTE]

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