It then behooves us to read the posts carefully to discern where each of us are coming from. Once we can make that kind of observation, we can then love at a distance, should we so choose (and it be our nature).
The Hindu could have lifted the scorpion with a large leaf (ghod knows, there are plenty of them in India
)- or floated one under the scorpion. He didn't need to subject himself to repeated stings...
alys