Consider the following partly-baked analogy:
Suppose an aircraft carrier far out at sea experiences damage which will eventually sink it and kill everyone on board. However, the nature and extent of the damage remain unknown, and the carrier might not have the skilled manpower and resources on board to repair it at sea and keep the ship operational.
The captain gathers his senior officers, engineers and mechanics around him, and says, "Gentlemen, we have an emergency, and we need an engineering solution to it." What would this captain do if someone in that gathering dismisses the very idea of finding an engineering solution as "denial," "false hope" or "snake oil"; says that the captain should "get over himself" for wanting to live; and on top of that says that saving the crew would just add to the population problems of the people on land?
The captain would act well within his rights to have this wise-ass thrown into the brig for insubordination and mutiny. The captain wants that engineering solution for the sake of his entire crew, not just to save himself because of his alleged narcissism. The mutineer, by contrast, has not only disrespected the captain's experience and authority, but he has also endangered the lives of everyone on that carrier by trying to demoralize the rescue effort.
Cryonicists find ourselves in a situation rather like this captain's, only we lack the power to throw the mutineers into jail for their attempts at sabotage. Cryonicists say that we have an emergency which threatens everyone on the planet, and we want engineering solutions to it. In the absence of a sufficient level of social mobilization, we've had to attempt the solutions ourselves in our own fumbling, inadequate way. I've tried to convey through my story the frustration and anger I experience, at least, when I confront the critics who threaten the survival of everyone alive through their attacks on the value of the rescue effort. The cryonics movement exists to try to save your lives, and not just ours.
If you don't think cryonics will work, then tell us your rescue plan.
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