People like to classify things. They like having neat buckets to place things in, give them a name, make them feel like they have a handle on it. The world is

People like to classify things. They like having neat buckets to place things in, give them a name, make them feel like they have a handle on it. The world is not easily classified. But people persist. So we end up with situations like "is Pluto a planet?" and "is a virus alive?" Then people start focusing on their classifications and definitions when in fact they don't actually matter to the reality of the situation. I need to dumb this down more if the audience is a 5 year old. People like to give things names. Like the colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. But sometimes a color can't be easily named. For example the shirt I'm wearing might look blue to me and green to you. Then we start arguing about what color the shirt is when what we really should talk about is if it matches my pants.