# What’s the worst thing about being an atheist?

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> [@k9bfriender](#):
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> I would be conscious in 11 places at once.
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> The moment of the copying, our existences will begin to diverge, but each one of them will be _me_.
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> Sure, without telepathy, I can’t _experience_ them all at once, but that doesn’t mean that each one of them isn’t experiencing being me.

Yes, they are all me to everyone _except_ me. It would make no difference to me whether I commit suicide with or without exact copies of myself in existence. They will all lead happy lives being me, but I’ll be dead. My wife (if I still had one) wouldn’t mind, she’d have 10 versions of me to nag. 😃

I posed a similar question on these boards 18 years ago [here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gotta-split-paradox/327391). It doesn’t get interesting until about mid-way through the thread. My beliefs remain essentially the same now as then.

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