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Sample idea: Teleport clone dilemma
A scientist has discovered a method of teleporting people from
one place to another. However, there are several issues for concern.
He doesn't actually move the person, but scans him in
and then recreates him in another location using some kind of
3D molecular printer. When the copy has been verified as complete
and accurate, he kills and destroys the original person. This
will obviously lead to all sorts of legal wrangling.
You'll also need to come up with (or gloss over) ways of performing
internal (i.e. inside the body, organs, and so on) atomic/molecular
scanning at very high speed, 3D printing at atomic/molecular
level at high speed, and how to stop the bits that have already
been printed from sloshing about and forming a puddle on the
floor while the rest of the body is being printed.
Assuming the process is approved (or if he just goes ahead with
it anyway) the process could be adapted so that certain elements
- such as tumours - are not copied. That means he can cure anyone
of practically any disease simply by teleporting them from one
place to another. He might also be able to heal wounds and broken
bones, replace missing limbs, cure paralysis, and remove tattoos
simply by manipulating the data in the computer file as it is
transferred.
It's all very laudable and Nobel Prize-worthy. Except that the
original body has to die. And that's the big crunch; the bit
that people can't accept. If the original body isn't killed then
he's created a clone - which might also come in handy!
There's also the religious argument about whether the person's
soul is also transferred to the new body. Some might argue that
the soul belonged to the original body, and went to Heaven when
it was destroyed. Do the new bodies have souls? Or seem to have
them? Is it really the same person? If the new body is created
and is alive while the original is also alive, does that mean
there are two souls? Or does it prove that souls don't actually
exist? All sorts of ideas to explore there!
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