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What exactly defines you as "you"?
Why do you say it's a suicide if you never saw or felt anything, and you manage to say around somewhere afterwards?
if we had those machines, people would just stop having this discussion.
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.