Rattlesnake Logic

[Phill]

A great way to explain things.
From an email I received this morning:

Rattlesnake Logic....



After the Boston bombing the news media spent days and weeks trying to determine why these men did what they did. They want to know what America did(!) to make these brothers so angry with us. They want to know why these men were not arrested before they did something so terrible. The media is in a tizzy about this new era of homegrown radicals and about why and how they can live among us and still hate us.



A friend of mine from Texas explained it all to me:



Here in west Texas, I have rattlesnakes on my place, living among us. I have killed a rattlesnake on the front porch. I have killed a rattlesnake on the back porch. I have killed rattlesnakes in the barn, in the shop and on the driveway. In fact, I kill every rattlesnake I encounter.



I kill rattlesnakes because I know a rattlesnake will bite me and inject me with poison. I don’t stop to wonder WHY a rattlesnake will bite me; I know it WILL bite me because it's a rattlesnake and that's what rattlesnakes do. I don’t try to reason with a rattlesnake or have a "meaningful dialogue" with it. I just kill it. I don’t try to get to know the rattlesnake better so I can find a way to live with the rattlesnakes and convince them not to bite me. I just kill them. I don’t quiz a rattlesnake to see if I can find out where the other snakes are, because (a) it won’t tell me and (b) I already know they live on my place. So, I just kill the rattlesnake and move on to the next one.



I don’t look for ways I might be able to change the rattlesnake to a non-poisonous rat snake...I just kill it. Oh, and on occasion, I accidentally kill a rat snake because I thought it was a rattlesnake at the time. Also, I know for every rattlesnake I kill, two more are lurking out there in the brush. In my lifetime I will never be able to rid my place of rattlesnakes.



Do I fear them? Not really. Do I respect what they can do to me and my family? Yes!! And because of that respect, I give them the fair justice they deserve...I kill them... As a country, we should start giving more thought to the fact that these jihadists' are telling the world their goal is to kill Americans and destroy our way of life. They have just posted two graphic videos on the internet showing them beheading Americans. They are serious. They are exactly like rattlesnakes. It is high time for us to start acting accordingly!

 

[rabiddawg]

AMEN

 

[Jed]

Short version.
A scorpion is waiting by the river bank for a ride across the river when along comes a fox headed the same way. The scorpion says "hey man, give me a ride to the other side right quick". The fox says "hell no dude, you'll sting me and I'll die". The scorpion replies "Why would I do that, I'd only drown" so the fox agrees. The scorpion hops onto the fox"s back, but halfway across the river he stings him. In his dying breath, the fox looks to the scorpion and says " wtf did you do that for, now we will both drown" The scorpion shrugs his claws and replies " because I am a scorpion, it is what I do.

 

[Jack]

Short version.
A scorpion is waiting by the river bank for a ride across the river when along comes a fox headed the same way. The scorpion says "hey man, give me a ride to the other side right quick". The fox says "hell no dude, you'll sting me and I'll die". The scorpion replies "Why would I do that, I'd only drown" so the fox agrees. The scorpion hops onto the fox"s back, but halfway across the river he stings him. In his dying breath, the fox looks to the scorpion and says " wtf did you do that for, now we will both drown" The scorpion shrugs his claws and replies " because I am a scorpion, it is what I do.

The original is a frog, but it's almost as good with a fox.