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Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:19:03 GMT

Thank you, great example: this is an argument that might have a chance in hell of working after they understand cryonics and give it a reasonable chance of working (and assuming I don't mind using the dark arts to convince them). If they're debating between cryonics and not-cryonics, this might tip the balance. But if they are actually debating between the two, most of the necessary work has already been done.

For example, I expect to have to navigate through a bunch of stuff involving souls first. Christians of my parents' variety tend to believe that when they die, their soul will instantly go to heaven. This causes a bunch of confusion: If your soul is in heaven, and your body is reanimated, what happens? Do you get sucked back out of heaven? Obviously the whole line of thinking is completely confused, but it will cause them to reject the whole notion without even beginning to seriously consider it.

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