True nature

On a riverbank a scorpion requested of a turtle "Please carry me to the other shore on your back."The turtle said "Don't be foolish!Don't think me stupid!You may sting me in the middle of the stram and I will drown and die." The scorpion said "I am not foolish;rather you are foolish,because you don't know simple logic.If I sting you and if you are drowned and dead,I will also die with you.So be sensible,be logical.I will not sting you-I cannot sting you."

The turtle thought for a moment and then said"Okay!It seems sensible.Hop on me,and off we go."And exactly in the midstream the sting comes.They both were sinking down.The turtle saked "Where has your logic gone?You have done a very illogical thing, and you yourself said that this is simple logic, that you would never do it.And now you have done it!Tell me before I doe.Let me learn another lesson of your logic."

The scorpion said "It is not a question of logic at all, it is just my nature.I cannot be without it.I can talk about it, but I cannot be without it. I am incapable, really."