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And long distance relationships wouldn't be so ... long distance.
I imagine the actual fruition of this type of technology wouldn't be far off from what happened in The Sixth Day, that awful Schwarzenegger movie. Not so much that they were going through the physical act of cloning people in the movie, but rather that the bad guys were all cloned and not real people.
When Arnold runs into his clone, there seems to be a bit of mental angst and then acceptance when Arnold 2 figures out that he isn't actually the real Arnold (clone copies are identified by little dots under eyelid).
I'm babbling, but brought that up in response to the idea that what comes out the other end of the transporter isn't actually the "real" thing, but a replicated version. That would be a really weird thing, but if there weren't any side effects, I would totally do it.
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