I recently received an email from the creator of an online game inviting me to cheat.
Now Car IQ is just a silly little Facebook game in which they show you a photo of a vehicle, and you have to answer mutiple-choice questions on the make and model correctly. It’s the kind of thing with which you’d kill a couple of minutes waiting for a download to complete or somesuch.
So it’s not such a big deal—there are no life-or-death decisions to be made here—but the casualness of the invitation to cheat is annoying and depressing. “Let’s keep this our little secret,” indeed. Hey, it’s just a bunch of strangers with numbers on a board as the only glory, so why not rise a bit on the sly? I didn’t even particularly want to tell on them until they told me not to.
I’m sure there is fabulous irony in the number of players who received this little email. They make it sound all hush-hush, when for all I know the entire user base received it. It’s dishonesty about dishonesty.
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