When a scorpion, being a very poor swimmer, asked a turtle to carry him
on his back across a river, the turtle exclaimed, “Are you mad? You’ll sting me
while I am swimming and I will drown.” But the scorpion laughed and said, “My
dear turtle, if I were to sting you, you would drown and I would go down with
you. Now where is the logic in that?” The turtle then reasoned and said, “You’re
right! Hop on!!”
The scorpion climbed aboard and halfway across the river, gave the
turtle a mighty sting. As they both sank to the bottom of the river, the turtle
resignedly said, “Do you mind if I ask you something? You said there would be
no logic in your stinging me. Why did you do it?” The drowning scorpion sadly
responded, “It has nothing to do with logic! IT IS JUST MY CHARACTER.”
So it is with some humans. No matter how nice or good you maybe to
them, it is just in their nature and character to sting, betray, rob, cheat,
hurt, kill or blackmail you, for no justifiable reason at all. May we be delivered,
from such humans!
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