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They should've Riker'd him and then de-Tuvix'd one of the copies. Then they'd have one of each!
Yeah, except that new Tuvix won't want to die either!
Do the second step quick before he has a chance to think about it. It's all on the transporter; it could probably be programmed in as a single sequence of operations.
Also, if the pre-duplication Tuvix consents, that's good enough.
We are officially thinking about this more than the episode did
That's not saying much, to be honest!
Or, it's doing what good science fiction does, make you think about the consequences of things that you normally wouldn't. (And there was some lazy writing.)
It's important not to think about the transporter too much. The transporter should be able to make everyone immortal and cure any disease. But they don't tend to use it for that for some reason.