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Sometimes I think about how we speak.
We express concepts that are simply relative, but we give absolute meaning.

For example, let's take the word "stupid".
If somebody tells me "That person is stupid", I understand what he means.
But when we really go to check if that person is stupid or not, then the things change.
He can be stupid compared to somebody. But he can be very smart compared to somebody else.
Not only. His smartness or stupidity can be related to some kind of subject only. He may not be good to learn languages or mathematics, but he may be a great cooker or biologist.

Even when we express simple concepts like "this apple is red", we simply say what our eyes see that moment.
If we change the type of light that illuminates the apple, it may not appear red anymore.
A cat would see the apple gray.
A snake may detect the temperature of the apple and feel it in different way too.
Then what is really the color of the apple?
It is relative. The concept of color itself is simply something that we made.

When we look at our rules, law, traditions, etc etc., the things go even worse.
If we started wondering "why?", we would find that there are things that we commonly do and accept as true/right and that instead changed many times in our history, depending on the opinion of the people of that period. They are simply relative concepts without any value except what, time by time, we want to give them.