Lighten up.
If you can't find the humor in what I did, I'm sorry.
So this and the resulting posts kind of cut to the core of my unease.
If it's just the sort of feeling of pulling one over on the pollster or the world at large, well, it's a kinda silly sort of humor, but whatever.
But the other posts. They take it down another road. If we take it down 320's first post and Badge's follow up, the idea is that I'm being lied to (or at least I feel I am), so I must put more lies out into the world. It basically says because I think I'm being wronged, I should wrong others, make sure their world has a little more lie in it. 320 said it rather plainly, he'd rather F with people because there's a perverse joy in being deceitful.
Badge pointed out we don't need polls at all. And for the most part, that's true. Consumers don't have to be given a product they want. Alas, capitalism exists. And to a degree, they serve something larger in the historical record, at least in some cases trying to gauge how people feel about their world. And instead of opting out, an act people often don't do, we mislead.
My initial response came down to this: If it's the above reasoning, just a harmless little bit, the world has room for that, even if it's a little not nice. But if it's all the rest of the stuff, well it just feels like adding to the negativity and mistruth of the world that seems full up on it already.