TreesNightly

Here�s a moral dilemma for the sci-fi fans. Consider a form of teleportation in which you can walk into a pod in Chicago where your body is deconstructed molecule by molecule providing the information that is used to make copies of those molecules to be built again at the chosen destination, let�s say Tokyo. While this a million times faster than any other mode of transportation, it�s legitimate to say that the you in Chicago painlessly and instantaneously died while a perfect clone of you was born in Tokyo. From the perspective of the new and now only you in Tokyo, it seems like you were �beamed-up� Star Trek style, with your last memory walking into the Chicago pod. From the perspective of the old you in Chicago, well, there is no longer a perspective to be had. Is this a morally acceptable technology to you? For well-adjusted atheists, I think it should be. For the most part, atheists don�t believe in souls. Post-deconstruction the teleporter is a non-entity, I needn�t worry that th...