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One day, a scorpion looked around at the mountain where he lived and decided that he wanted a change. So he set out on a journey through the forests and hills. He climbed over rocks and under vines and kept going until he reached a river.

The river was wide and swift, and the scorpion stopped to reconsider the situation. He couldn't see any way across. So he ran upriver and then checked downriver, all the while thinking that he might have to turn back.

Suddenly, he saw a frog sitting in the rushes by the bank of the stream on the other side of the river. He decided to ask the frog for help getting across the stream.

"Hellooo Mr. Frog!" called the scorpion across the water, "Would you be so kind as to give me a ride on your back across the river?"  

"Well now, Mr. Scorpion! How do I know that if I try to help you, you wont try to kill me?" asked the frog hesitantly.

"Because," the scorpion replied, "If I try to kill you, then I would die too, for you see I cannot swim!"

Now this seemed to make sense to the frog. But he asked. "What about when I get close to the bank? You could still try to kill me and get back to the shore!"

"This is true," agreed the scorpion, "But then I wouldn't be able to get to the other side of the river!"

"Alright then...how do I know you wont just wait till we get to the other side and THEN kill me?" said the frog.

"Ahh...," crooned the scorpion, "Because you see, once you've taken me to the other side of this river, I will be so grateful for your help, that it would hardly be fair to reward you with death, now would it?!"

So the frog agreed to take the scorpion across the river. He swam over to the bank and settled himself near the mud to pick up his passenger. The scorpion crawled onto the frog's back, his sharp claws prickling into the frog's soft hide, and the frog slid into the river. The muddy water swirled around them, but the frog stayed near the surface so the scorpion would not drown. He kicked strongly through the first half of the stream, his flippers paddling wildly against the current.

Halfway across the river, the frog suddenly felt a sharp sting in his back and, out of the corner of his eye, saw the scorpion remove his stinger from the frog's back. A deadening numbness began to creep into his limbs.

"You fool!" croaked the frog, "Now we shall both die! Why on earth did you do that?"

The scorpion shrugged, and did a little jig on the drowning frog's back.

"I could not help myself. I am a scorpion.  It is my nature."

Then they both sank into the muddy waters of the swiftly flowing river.

The Scorpion personality:

   As the old saying goes, “a leopard can never change its spots”, creatures cannot change their nature. Some people are forgiving by nature, some accusatory. Some people enjoy helping others get ahead, while others thrive on being ahead and will subvert others’ attempts to improve their standing.

   Some people have a deep sense of inadequacy. The only way such a person has to make himself feel adequate is to have power over others. The only way he can be reassured that his power exists is by causing discomfort, inconvenience, or pain. This kind of person feels that being able to make another person do that which he would not otherwise do except by force or coercion validates his power over his victim. He makes the victim (child, student, employee, etc.) suffer simply because he can.

   Some people are born con artists who will make all kinds of promises and/or claim to be in need of “help from a friend” in order to accomplish their short term goals, while in fact only preying on their victim’s sympathy as long as the victim will allow himself to be so used. That kind of social predator has no idea what the word “friend” really means. He has never been one and gradually drives away anyone who ever may have thought of himself as a friend of that person.

   Often, the offender doesn’t even think about what he is doing. Deep philosophical thought becomes disturbing to him, so he pushes such thoughts out of his conscious mind, deep into the subconscious. The social predator becomes so adept at rationalizing these conflicts “away” that he eventually locks away his conscience. He may study psychology so as to better be able to manipulate his victims, but the study of philosophy and ethics is the last thing he wishes to consider.

  Another sad aspect of the “scorpion” personality is that, like the creature in the fable, the person also becomes a victim to his own nature. Every time he victimizes another casual friend or acquaintance it diminishes him a bit more. Over the years he develops a reputation. Newcomers who first meet him are won over by his smooth and “friendly” style, but most are warned by former victims or their many acquaintances to “beware”. Only the most naïve or most uninformed become victims of a well-established community scorpion. Sadly, as time goes by, that predator becomes the loneliest and least loved member of the community. He becomes his own greatest victim.

Gluxutaat  Ploeu 

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