Thought for Today
The donkey told the tiger, "The grass is blue." The tiger replied, "No, the grass is green ."
The discussion became heated, and the two decided to submit the issue to arbitration, so they approached the lion.
As they approached the lion on his throne, the donkey started screaming: ′′Your Highness, isn't it true that the grass is blue?"
The lion replied: "If you believe it is true, the grass is blue."
The donkey rushed forward and continued: ′′The tiger disagrees with me, contradicts me and annoys me. Please punish him."
The king then declared: ′′The tiger will be punished with 3 days of silence."
The donkey jumped with joy and went on his way, content and repeating ′′The grass is blue, the grass is blue..."
The tiger asked the lion, "Your Majesty, why have you punished me, after all, the grass is green?"
The lion replied, ′′You've known and seen the grass is green."
The tiger asked, ′′So why do you punish me?" The lion replied, "That has nothing to do with the question of whether the grass is blue or green. The punishment is because it is degrading for a brave, intelligent creature like you to waste time arguing with an ass, and on top of that, you came and bothered me with that question just to validate something you already knew was true!"
The biggest waste of time is arguing with the fool and fanatic who doesn't care about truth or reality, but only the victory of his beliefs and illusions. Never waste time on discussions that make no sense. There are people who, for all the evidence presented to them, do not have the ability to understand. Others who are blinded by ego, hatred and resentment, and the only thing that they want is to be right even if they aren’t.
When IGNORANCE SCREAMS, intelligence moves on.
Geeze, could you take this story more literally? Now, please get into a discussion of rods and cones effects on color perception.
I think you missed the point. Sometimes things that we might assume to be universally true are only true within our own context.
How is right and wrong (truth) determined?
It seems there are only three options for determining truth:
Truth is determined by a transcendent source (e.g. laws of math for mathematical truth, divine for spiritual/moral truth.
Truth is determined by a small group of elites (e.g. the vaxx is safe and effective, mostly peaceful protests)
We each determine what is true for ourselves (which is actually a false choice - just try this in the face of those pushing option #2.
Much of the fight today is actually not about whether the grass is green or blue. That is largely irrelevant. The real fight is about the ultimate source for truth.
No, I got the point - I'm not a 3 y/o. News flash - the OP's story was an allegory - your reply was as if the story was of actual events. It's perfectly fine to disagree with the conclusions of the story but, why debate the cultural differences of color perception? I'd love to have you explain whether or not lions, tigers, and donkeys speak a common language or why the donkey and tiger are hanging out, talking about grass. If this was based on actual events, the story would have ended with the tiger having donkey for dinner as the guest of honor.