# Would you step into a transporter?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 16, 2006, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-step-into-a-transporter/372966 "2006-09-16T16:16:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-step-into-a-transporter/372966/81 "2006-11-02T21:52:02Z")

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Yes.

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**Author:** ![Autumn\_Almanac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Autumn\_Almanac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autumn_Almanac)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-step-into-a-transporter/372966/82 "2006-11-02T22:42:25Z")

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To everyone who’s answered that it doesn’t matter if _you_ stops existing, since _you-prime_ lives on with the same conciousness:

What about a scenario where _you-prime_ comes out the other side of the teleporter and goes about its business, but instead of being vaporized, _you_ is made into a slave, subjected to torture, etc. _You-prime_’s experience is exactly the same no matter what happens to _you_. So is the enslavement scenario equivalent to the vaporization scenario?

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