Would you step into a teleporter?

[SomethingClever]

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Based on your nickname, I think I have to ask this:

Is someone pressing you to become a suicide bomber?

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rofl

[disjunction]

The way you describe it, no, of course not, because you are being killed and an exact replica created. If, however, the technology were to scan your body, break it up into infinitemal pieces with no mass, and send those pieces faster than the speed of light to some other location, than my answer would be yes. I kind of assume that the Star Trek technology is the latter. If not, Dr. McCoy had a point.

[disjunction]

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No chance. I've seen "The Fly".

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nh

[jakethebake]

Am I the first person to go through this confounded contraption?

[snowden719]

assume that it is perfectly safe, used millions of times by others without anything going wrong.

[jakethebake]

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assume that it is perfectly safe, used millions of times by others without anything going wrong.

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then why would anyone say no, if they knew it was perfectly safe?

[meow_meow]

It seems like some (but not all) of the respondants are missing the point:
When you go through the teleporter, "you" are destroyed - broken down atom by atom. A person identical to you is rebuilt at the other end using the information gathered during your destruction, but I think most people (except the clone of course!) wouldn't claim that the new being is "you".
You step in, you die.

A little extra argument for those who think that it will be them on the other side of the transporter goes something like this: "lets say the transporter mark II does the same thing, but in a non-destructive way - it just creates a copy of you at the other end, without destroying the original you."

[jakethebake]

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It seems like some (but not all) of the respondants are missing the point:
When you go through the teleporter, "you" are destroyed - broken down atom by atom. A person identical to you is rebuilt at the other end using the information gathered during your destruction, but I think most people (except the clone of course!) wouldn't claim that the new being is "you".
You step in, you die.

A little extra argument for those who think that it will be them on the other side of the transporter goes something like this: "lets say the transporter mark II does the same thing, but in a non-destructive way - it just creates a copy of you at the other end, without destroying the original you."

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Not that it amtters to my thinking but I thought the atoms themselves were actually transported so it's still the same atoms put back together and therefore the same you. In any case, if the new me is identical, I don't care.

[AngryCola]

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You step in, you die.

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I knew it was a loaded question from the beginning, but it wasn't worded the way you describe. If it had been, I'm sure many people would have given a different answer.

[snowden719]

thank you for being one of the few people who can remotely see the question for what it is.