This makes no sense. It's like asking:

    "Alice is in Denver. Is Alice in (a) Canada or (b) Mexico?"

    - Your boundary between Canada and Mexico is at 40° latitude, more southern than 53% of the population.

▲ hmokiguess 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I recommend this reading: https://empiricalzeal.com/2012/06/05/the-crayola-fication-of...

▲ Sohcahtoa82 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What if it was phrased differently?

Rather than asking "Is this blue or green?", it's "Does this look more blue to you, or more green to you?"

Because then your analogy becomes "Is Alice closer to Canada or Mexico?"

▲ phaedrus 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Someone should make a parody site asking whether shades of yellow are red or violet.

▲ miltonlost 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Your example would only be valid if "blue" and "green" had objective answers for when something is Blue and something is Green and have clear demarcated boundaries. You're switching to a literal boundary example where there are actual lines to be crossed. Colors are a fuzzy continuum; national boundaries, not including fought-over areas like the Sea of Japan, are easy to be in or not.

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Rapzid 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> Colors are a fuzzy continuum

Denver is teal, the USA blue-green. Canada is Blue, and Mexico is green.

Their analogy is pretty on point.

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TZubiri 3 hours ago | parent [-]

You are confusing geographical position with countries.

Countries are not a continuum, they start and end at some specific line defined by constitutions, mutually agreed by neighbours (or disputed through war and diplomacy) Colours have no such incentive for strict unified definitions, so there is no point at which blue ends.

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Rapzid 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm not confusing anything. I am 1000% unconfused and entirely on the same wavelength as OP.

You're inability to wrap your head around the analogy is tantamount to.. Not being able to comprehend blue-green.

	▲	suuhhhhg 20 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It’s a terrible analogy though.

▲ TZubiri 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wow, crazy to see someone thinking there's an official objective color definition