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antiquie

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3. Old fable

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 03:02 PM

Oct 2014

A scorpion asks a frog to carry him over a river. The frog is afraid of being stung during the trip, but the scorpion argues that if it stung the frog, both would sink and the scorpion would drown. The frog agrees and begins carrying the scorpion, but midway across the river the scorpion does indeed sting the frog, dooming them both. When asked why, the scorpion points out that this is its nature. The fable is used to illustrate the position that no change can be made in the behaviour of the fundamentally vicious. It is this moral that is also illustrated by Aesop's fable of The Farmer and the Viper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog

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4 Reasons You Should Be Taking America's Inequality Very Personally [View all] unhappycamper Oct 2014 OP

And since consumer spending plus gov't spending on healthcare totals 70% of GDP, Snarkoleptic Oct 2014 #1

Please expand on the "frog/scorpion" thing. littlemissmartypants Oct 2014 #2

Old fable antiquie Oct 2014 #3

The fundamentally vicious indeed do exist. littlemissmartypants Oct 2014 #4