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Originally Posted by HarryT
I remember some years ago either reading a short story, or seeing a short film - I forget which it was - about the "ethics" of transporter technology, the whole point of which was that it inevitably involves the "death" of the person being "transported", and the ethical implications of that.
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Originally Posted by montsnmags
For some reason (and it may be a short story I read once), this is what came to my mind too when I first saw it on the list. I don't want to assume that's the basis of BOb's "impossible", but if it is, then it would clarify that particular parameter of "impossible" in my mind.
Cheers,
Marc
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There was a sequence of stories that eventually became a novel (I think) on this topic. ISTR that the inventors of the transporter picked up and pushed (in the advertising sense) a 'religion' called "reformed Sufi-ism," because adherents of said religion were OK with the transporter. One of the stories involved the founder of said religion supposedly travelling by transporter to a distant star -- except that
Can't remember the author or any titles, though.
Xenophon