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Define "you." An identical collection and pattern of atoms and subatomic particles? Then yes. A continuous consciousness as experienced by the "me" on the entry side of the teleporter? No.
Would I kill myself to save five lives and create one? Yes
This here, although teleporters might actually be implemented in a way that transmits the original being to the destination. It's a fictional technology after all, so why not?
Yeah, I am assuming Star Trek transporters. If it's a wormhole then it's fine
You're not a continuous consciousness anyway. Sleep is a thing.
I hate that comic. Equivocation is a fallacy. Your alarm clock is proof that you don't lose experiential consciousness when you sleep.
What comic and no it doesn't. And reading through your exchange with the other guy it's clear we have very different ideas about the nature of self-identity. I don't think of my body as necessary for "me" to exist, I am my thoughts and memory rather than my neurons and chemistry. If that information can be copied and transmitted then there will be a "me" that continues from a new location.
There will be a you, but it's not the same you. If you read my exchange with the other guy, then what are your thoughts on the "shot in the head" topic? Would you be okay with this you being killed in a very real and visceral way, as long as a you would be reconstructed elsewhere?
There is no way to know that were not constantly dying and being replaced. The experience of continuity may be an illusion because you don't notice that you're only alive for a split second, and replacing the consciousness that was alive a split second before you.
Okay? That's all well and good, but there is a way to know that a transporter does kill you. Given a choice between maybe living or definitely dying, I'm gonna choose the former.