There was a man who lived with his two daughters, who were curious and intelligent and always asked many questions, on vacation his father sent them to a wise man's house. The wise person always answered all the questions without any doubt. Impatient with the wise, the girls decided to invent a question that he could not answer so they captured a beautiful blue butterfly and having it in their hands approached the wise man and asked him:
"Here in my hands I have a butterfly, could you tell me if it is alive or dead?"
They expected a wrong response from the wise person to show that he was wrong, but his response left them stunned. The wise man firmly replied "It is your decision, you have it in your hands"