It's My Nature

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• TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  yeah the whole “it’s my nature” thing always weired me out. like yall realize that human nature is still being determined right??

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  • Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think you are entirely missing the point of the fable.

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    • bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, Scorpions are Dicks

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• Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is the prequel.

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  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    No, this is canon.

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• General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I always think about that fable when I see Germans voting for that far-right party.

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• casmael@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Is there a joke here I’m missing or is this just you know, what’s written on the page

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  • BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s a parody of en.m.wikipedia.org/…/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog

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    • casmael@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      O7

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  • Contramuffin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Reference to an Aesop fable. In the original version, the scorpion stings the frog and both of them drown. The moral is that some people are intrinsically harmful, even against their own self interest

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    • casmael@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I always expect aesops fables to end with the explanatory post script you get in jataka tales but they never do.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There’s an old fable about the frog and the scorpion.

    Paraphrasing, the scorpion asked the frog to be carried over the river, because otherwise he’d drown. The frog was reluctant, saying “but you’ll sting me”.

    To which, the scorpion says, “but then I’d drown! so I won’t do that”.

    Persuaded, the frog agrees. As they were crossing the scorpion stings the frog, and the frog asks, “Why would you do that? now we both die!”

    and the scorpion replied, “because it’s in my nature”

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    • casmael@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I see I see. I like this version much better. Aesop can suck it.

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  • Phen@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    en.m.wikipedia.org/…/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog

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    • casmael@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      O7

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• stray@pawb.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hikeback is a visual novel horror game based on the story of the scorpion and the frog that I found very moving.

  clowndream.itch.io/hikeback

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  • MBM@lemmings.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Feels inspired by one of my favourite Tumblr posts

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  • a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    thanks, that was nice to experience, made me install slay the princess again to finally do the deed

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• ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I am always so glad to see Matt and Ian still at it. Mac Hall were the days.

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