Well caliban, I believe we should act according to the best as for the notion of the public opinion, don't you think?
I think this community has enough wisdom to not go for stupid decisions...
I believe Bruce wouldn't try and change it if it was against his opinion. I suppose he changed his mind. (didn't you Bruce?)
I doubt he changed his mind, but no, I'm certain he wouldn't go against public opinion. But then again, not even a majority of the imminst membership voted on this topic, so we still have most of our member's opinions unaccounted for...
Also, , caliban dear, life's not an easy thing. It is full of challenges. Our main goal for case you didn't notice is not easy, quite hard and challenging...
Satisfaction is much greater after a successfully complement of a harder challenge.
I believe Caliban was just emphasizing the amount of effort that might be needed to add a gender option could possibly be greater then the potential value gained by having it, even if many people wanted it. For a rather extreme example, picture a universe where some given option would take Bruce longer to implement then it would take him to personally cure aging. Certainly at that point, no one would say he was obligated to violate the Imminst mission just to satisfy the opinion, as the gender option would be coming at too high of a price.
This is probably not the case here, but it's just something to think about. Just because something is challenging is no reason to do it. It has to be challenging and equally rewarding or you are wasting your time.
I hope you did not offend Caliban...