First reaction: What kind of stupid question is that? I want to live as long as possible.
Having read the article: less than 1% share my view. Yikes.
I think for most people, questions like this are what I'd call a "philosophy landmine"; say certain things and it causes people to stop thinking and repeat some standard cultural tropes or go spinning off into faux-philosophy-land.
For the first question, there was no guarantee that aging would be slowed. You might feel very, very old and infirm at 150 even if you could take pills that keep you from dying. I think the responses reflected pessimism about quality of extended life.
Which again brings us back to the "philosophy landmine" aspect of the question. If you ask people if the mind is a function of the body, most of them will emphatically say no. These same people will have no trouble accepting the existence of Alzheimer's disease.
Having read the article: less than 1% share my view. Yikes.
I think for most people, questions like this are what I'd call a "philosophy landmine"; say certain things and it causes people to stop thinking and repeat some standard cultural tropes or go spinning off into faux-philosophy-land.
Kind of depressing.