The Artist vs. The Physicist

Suppose you ask an artist, "What color do you get when you mix all the colors?"

They are likely to tell you that you get some type of dark, brownish-blackish color.

Now ask a physicist the same question. They will likely answer, "White."

Why are their answers different? Who is correct?

It's all about perspective. An artist will think of the colors in terms of paints and pigments; indeed, if you mix all the paint colors together, you will not get white. Physicists, on the other hand, generally think of colors in terms of the light spectrum, not in terms of pigments. All the colors of light together make white light.

Neither of them is incorrect in their answer; they're merely seeing the world through different lenses due to their wildly different occupations - and they gave the correct answer based on what they know.

Perspective is an interesting concept. Every individual in existence has a unique perspective on the world, and no matter what happens nobody is able to step outside of theirs and see from a completely objective standpoint.

This begs the question: does a truly objective world even exist?

Nobody can experience it in any capacity, so for now let's assume that the world is made up of an ever-changing number of subjective perspectives.

With that said, who has right to pass judgement on another? Nobody.

We hear it all the time. People determine that another person or group of people is 'wrong' or 'immoral' because that person or group doesn't live by the same standards. They don't believe in the same deity, they don't play by the same rules, or they just don't agree on something, and suddenly they're wrong (and in extreme cases of this, need to be fixed or destroyed).

People who judge and determine such things are forgetting that their personal standards are not universal. Just because something is wrong in their perspective does not mean it is objectively wrong.

If we dive further, we find that 'wrong' and 'right' are just words, and their meanings are determined by - you guessed it - the subjective perspectives that govern our individual realities.

To make a long story short, judging others for different ways of thinking is a futile endeavor. They, like anyone else, have grown up with a completely different life that has given them a completely different lens with which to view the world.

There is no 'wrong', there is no 'right'; everything simply is, and from there each individual labels what is what about it.

Imagine how much more peaceful our world could be if people listened and entertained the perspectives of others as equally valid to their own.