Didn’t a transporter make two of the same person?
That’s the question isn’t it?
A transporter deconstructs your physical make up, down to each individual cell at point A, transmits that data, and reconstructs it at point B. So if the you at point B has one skin cell in your foot that was in your arm at point A. You’re a different person.
Who can say that the deconstruction is not the destruction of your body, and the reconstruction the recreation of your body.
A common argument about transportation technology, the ethics and morality involved with transmitting cells as data. Even if it were possible to change organic matter into energy, isn’t it the same exact thing as deconstruction/reconstruction?