Originally Posted by
njkayaker
Quite a few people are excusing the driver. You are too with your story about scorpians which can't transcend their "nature".
The OP is much more concerned with the lack of "civility"of a particular hand gesture than by anything the driver did.
OP is wrong IMO, but you guys are misreading Dave and me.
The parable does not defend the scorpion as I understand it, although it's become such a cliche now that people probably see it that way. It's more about the frog, and the way the world imposes limitations on morality and reason.