If You Agree
I’ve been getting a number of emails lately from the “usual suspects” that contain information about freedom, religion, liberties, American pride, and all sorts of stuff like that. The emails are nothing new. I’ve been getting them for years. I actually appreciate most of them because I find them entertaining, heart-warming, or just a good break from the drudgery of my day.
However, in the past 3-4 months, the “please forward this to everyone you know” message has changed. They now almost always read something like “If you agree……forward it to everyone you know, if not simply hit the delete button.”
Most of these emails contain statements that I agree with, but the closing statement more or less demands that I disagree with the statements in the email because I’m not going to forward it on. It irks me that people out there emailing me chain letters that require a moral action on my part. I delete the emails, but that doesn’t have any implicit or explicit meaning on if I agree with them or not.
Just for the record. I rarely forward these types of emails on. When I do, I clean up the forward-header-hell and reply-indentation-crap that is always mangling the emails. Then I forward the message on to select recipients that I feel might have a personal stake in the email or might get a good amount of enjoyment out of it.
If you chain letter me, please be considerate and remove any moral demands that you may have of me from the emails. They’re not going to work and coerce me into annoying everyone in my address book.
Thanks.
