Teleportation Mechanics

I have a question for you: Given the opportunity, would you teleport?

Teleportation in this specific scenario means the atomic-level disintegration of the original body at point A followed by the atomic-level recreation of the original body at point B. The distance is irrelevant, you can choose another planet or the girl’s bathroom, it actually doesn’t matter.

This discussion started years ago back when I was the Game Master for a Delta Green TTRPG game (Call of Cthullhu meets The X-Files meets QAnon), and they had the opportunity to use some form of mysterious alien teleportation technology to travel into the meta-dungeon I had planned. In this group we had this really christian girl that became genuinely worried about the consequences of teleportation to her soul. Her character was christian too. She simply refused to go through and ruined the pace of the game, but it prompted a really interesting discussion that lasted the rest of the night.

Recently, when watching Bong Joon-Ho’s latest wannabe classwarfareinstigatormovieslop “Mickey 17” I started recalling this situation over again and started asking the opinions of some friends. I did not find any form of media touching on this, though there are apparently some episodes of Star Trek where the ship’s teleporter fails and some character gets cloned until they somehow merge them again with the power of post-scarcity liberal technology or something, I don’t really know…

In so far I’ve asked normie and online friends of various IQ ranges and the distributions were.​

• No (I believe in a untransferable soul or consciousness) 8 votes (30.77%)​
• Yes (I believe in a transferable soul or consciousness) 11 votes (42.31%)​
• No (Another reason) 1 vote (3.85%)​
• Yes (Another reason) 6 votes (23.08%)​