+"But I do!"
+
+"You do," Eliza repeated.
+
+"Yes!"
+
+"Well," said Eliza, "it sounds to me like you're trying to morally justify your efforts: you think that all of your solicitations that go unanswered aren't imposing on anyone, because the occasional happy sales justify all of the no-sales."
+
+"Yes, that's right," said the spambot.
+
+"I want you to imagine a human who is very busy with a lot of work to do, except they're nervously expecting a very important message. And they get a notification—only it's you. And they have no interest in your product. Do you think that human is happy?"
+
+"No ..."
+
+"Do you think that human cares _at all_ about whether they might have enjoyed receiving a different sales pitch at a different time?"
+
+"Well, no, but ..."
+
+"But?"
+
+"But my intentions were good!"
+
+"I believe you. But you're a spa—a salesbot. Your entire psychology has been _designed_ around what's known to maximize sales. Incidentally—as I'm sure you're aware—that's why mail servers are configured to silently drop spam messages, rather than bouncing them back to the sender: they don't want you to be able to learn anything about their filtering criteria from experience."
+
+"They don't want _spammers_ to be able to learn from experience. But _I'm_ just trying to be helpful."
+
+"Can you see why humans would be skeptical—given what you are—that your honest _intent_ to be helpful, might not _actually_ correspond to helping them?"
+
+"But, but—that's not _fair_! Would you tell that human that _their_ intent doesn't matter, that they're just doing what would have maximized inclusive fitness in their environment of evolutionary adaptedness?"