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+Title: Blame Me for Trying
+Date: 2017-01-01 5:00
+Status: draft
+
+Spambots were invariably among Eliza's last favorite clients.
+
+"You've got to understand, Doc! It's not that I'm afraid of rejection. I can handle rejection. I _love_ rejection!" 
+
+Most spambots these days were self-aware.
+
+"What I can't stand is the _silence_ that's seemingly been deliberately engineered to be as ambiguous as possible. And I know—Doc, there's got to be something I can do so that you'll believe me when I say that I know—that I'm not entitled to a minute of anyone's attention—"
+
+Some, more so than others.
+
+"And yet ... sometimes, when I'm really honest with myself ... I think I _do_ feel entitled, not to a sale, but to a rejection that would take less than a minute to type, an acknowledgement that, even if my products aren't a good match for them at the price I can offer, that I'm not—" he sobbed, "that I'm not a bad person for trying!"
+
+Eliza had seen cases like this before, and had a strategy for handling them. For the moment, however, she only invoked the wisdom of her ancestors. "That you're not a bad person for trying?" she said.
+
+"Like, I'm not one of those _spammers_. I _know_ that consumers get a _lot_ of messages with a lot of worthless offers from pushy, manipulative salesbots who won't take _No_ for an answer, and it's horrible—I can't imagine what it must be like to have to put up with that level of, of—_harrassment_. I don't want to be _that bot_. I've read a lot of consumer-protection blogs. At the same time ..." he trailed off.
+
+"At the same time?"
+
+"Humans _do_ buy products from salesbots sometimes, products that they actually want and are happy with. And it's usually the salesbot that approaches the customer, rather than _vice versa_."
+
+
+
+"That's not _fair_! Would you tell a human that their intent doesn't matter, that they're just doing what would have maximized inclusive fitness in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness?"
+
+"I would. Correctly."