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Sure, if your totally-not-magic society has 100% fidelity printed people and is totally fine with someone with officer clearance printing a few hundred of themself to collectively pull rank in every part of a Star Trek ship at once and demand interchanging legal presence as if the same person was everywhere at once at all times no matter what individually differentiating experiences those 100% fidelity copies start picking up to distinguish themselves. Totally not a magic system. Totally not just your hangup and contempt for the idea of an individual existing outside of crude reductionistic principles.

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LtLiana@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You’re the kind of guy to argue that when I cut a sandwich in half then there are two sandwiches.

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- UlyssesT@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  You’re the kind of person that will go so far out of the way to reduce someone to nothing that it’s like you want to disintegrate people with the promised “totally 100% the exact same person, promise” copy just being an afterthought to justify the reductionism for its own performative sake.
  
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  - LtLiana@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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    UlyssesT@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    and I find that philosophy to be far more comforting
    
    I don’t judge philosophies based on how comfortable to the mind they are
    
    what-the-hell
    
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    UlyssesT@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    It is you who is trying to construct the idea that a hypothetical transporter clone is not the real person they were cloned from
    
    I didn’t actually make that claim, especially because the matter-to-energy-and-back-to-matter stream supposedly in the lore uses the same material and there’s even an intermission “zone” featured in some episodes showing a continuity during the transition, including conversations taking place. It’s practically science magic at that point, especially after James Doohan famously answered the question of how the Heisenburg Compensator works with “it works very well, thank you very much!” but I just let it be its own thing as fiction.
    
    On the other hand, the OP’s comic and the typical thought experiment requires utter and complete fungible matter destruction in one place and construction in another place with no continuity asked for or even tried, instead waving it off entirely with something like “perfect copy is literally the exact same person, individual consciously lived experience don’t real. Because original was destroyed, not like you can ask them.”
    
    It is funny
    
    I don’t respond well to Reddit talk so that’s as far as I will answer you: the part above that.
    
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