Oh yes, I imagine so. The scorpion will be dead, and whether or not the frog survives, it would be in terrible pain for a while at least. There's no trick to the last. A thought experiment now and again does no harm. It keeps one reasoning out new solutions to old problems.

[Xemnas leans back a little, sobering. It was interesting to see her work her way through things, but in the end it wasn't particularly relevant.]

Long ago I selected Demyx to be among our number. Not for his cleverness, I'll tell you that. Still waters run deep, and all things fall before the sea eventually. But that current could never be brought to the surface. He was too lazy, too cowardly, too unwilling to work for anything at all. Such was his nature. Such will always be his nature, even with a heart. A heart will only feed that flaw.