What We Call Orange

Describing right and wrong.

Right and wrong, good and bad, dark and light. 

Similarities? 

Opposites: yes, but descriptors as well. 

To define is to describe, to describe what something is. But how can you describe something if it is a descriptor itself?

For example dark. Something dark is something that is "with little or no light", according to the New Oxford American Dictionary. But using light in the definition doesn't prove anything because when you look at the definition for light, it says "not dark". 

Like a color, how would you describe orange?

The New Oxford American Dictionary says orange is "reddish-yellow". But how do you describe red and yellow? Yellow is "the color between green and orange". It's like a dog chasing his tail, around and around, again and again, without achieving anything. 

When you dare to describe the indescribable, you teeter along the border of the known world.

Either you understand profoundly, or everything loses all meaning.

It is a risk that makes you doubt.

But do you really doubt red? When you've known what red is ever since kindergarten?

But you doubt right and wrong, even when those were the first things we are ever taught.

"Don't hit you brother!"

"Share your toys."

"Do your homework."

"Clean your room!" 

Sharing is right; fighting is wrong.

A clean room is good; a messy room is bad.

This is yellow; that is red.

Again and again.

Over and over we've been told this.

Good.

Bad.

Right.

Wrong.

Orange.

Is what we call orange really orange?

Is right really right?

Or are these simply things we have been taught to think?

Colors, descriptors, morals,- just tradition.