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Because technically, it's a scanner + printer and not a mover. It's just that the original is deliberately destroyed every time (unless something goes wrong *looks at Miles*).
IIRC, it's even mentioned that people going through the transporter are cached. Like, they store snapshots, so you can compare the changes between older you and newer you. You can also store a person in buffer digitally, meaning you can copy and print as many as you want.
They use that cache gimmick in Strange New Worlds a few times. One for a spoiler plot. But also in a flashback to the war they mention "storing" medical patients in the buffer because there are too many wounded and they can't keep up.
It's definitely used in older series as well.
If it's so fast that you don't see it, it doesn't happen.
Again, if we had those machines, and they were reliable (unlike the Star Trek ones) everybody would use them, nobody would blink an eye. Nobody would have any answer to those philosophical questions, and close to nobody would spend their days thinking about them.
I mean, just because it happens fast or in an unnoticeable way doesn't mean it doesn't happen. If somebody vaporized themselves instantly it's still suicide. Sure, people would probably accept the fact that their original is being killed for convenience, but the fact stays.
Just because that's your viewpoint doesn't mean that everyone will automatically think that way. There would probably be some that are averse to it and some that don't care.