I mean, does it really matter? For all intents and purposes, the person coming out of the teleporter is me. They’ll have continuity of consciousness. You can argue about “oh it just kills you and makes a person exactly like you” like maybe so, but does it matter?
Now imagine it malfunctions and doesn’t vaporize you before creating the copy, but just creates the copy at the end point leaving you still standing in the transporter. Still you? If not, what’s changed?
I mean, does it really matter? For all intents and purposes, the person coming out of the teleporter is me. They’ll have continuity of consciousness. You can argue about “oh it just kills you and makes a person exactly like you” like maybe so, but does it matter?
Now imagine it malfunctions and doesn’t vaporize you before creating the copy, but just creates the copy at the end point leaving you still standing in the transporter. Still you? If not, what’s changed?
I mean, I can just kill myself the normal way