Link: [url="http://"http://www.freeratio.org/showthread.php?p=6193749""]here[/url]
Granted, it's only an informal poll but the results were surprisingly positive. Approximately 85-90% chose "I would like to have control over the aging process and I would choose to live longer than a hundred years." - Which I suspect is also the same viewpoint shared by most Imminst members. While the poll only has 30 responses as of today, it does indicate that the vast majority of non-theists would choose to take advantage of anti-aging ("control over the aging process") and radical life-extension ("live longer than a hundred years") technologies if they were made available.
Perhaps more surprising is that only one person chose the extreme pro-death: "I would not swallow the pill and it should be made a crime for people to interefere with the natural aging process." while a whopping 25 people chose the anti-death opposite. Websites such as this and this portray society's attitudes towards death as being potentially destructive towards the goals of Imminst but should we really be worrying if these beliefs are only carried by a small minority?
(Interestingly, another poll on the same board with 40 responses had 80% admitting the plausibility of a technological singularity)
The results of the poll was a real eye-opener for me. Does this mean that the so-called social obstacle of "deathism" isn't as strong and influential as we thought?
Edited by Mind, 27 November 2009 - 07:59 PM.
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