X-Message-Number: 13702
From: "John Clark" <>
Subject: Can I kill the original?
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 13:23:20 -0400

In #13692  "Scott Badger" <> Wrote:


    >The way I view it, every time someone transports, they are killed at the 
    point

    >that they are disassembled. An exact copy is apparently created somewhere 
    else.


I'm the victim of a crime, I woke up this morning and found that every bit of 
furniture
in my house had been stolen and replaced by an exact copy. This is dreadful,
I'm calling the police!


    >Since it behaves exactly like the original, no one else is alarmed and 
    since
    >the original is dead, there's no one to complain.


The original (whatever that means) is not complaining, the copy (whatever that 
means)

is not complaining, and my friends (I know what that means) are not complaining.
So pardon me for asking but, what exactly is the complaint?

    >Kirk died a thousand deaths.


I hope so, it would mean I'm dead too because I'm quite literally not the man I 
was
a year ago. If that's what you mean by death then death is no big deal.

         John K Clark       

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