If it's jot you then the question becomes, are you willing to commit suicide so a reasonable facsimile of you can save some strangers.

It won't be me and, unless I have some loved one there, I'm not thoughtlessly jumping into suicide.

Depends if teleportation uses TCP or UDP

Doesn't that make it even more selfless?

Doesn't it depend if the teleporter open a up a wormhole or used replication?

If you teleport the people off the tracks then you can kill them all while still taking credit for saving them.

My concern would be less about whether it sends the original or creates a perfect copy, but more about how reliable it is. Getting Riker'd/Boimler'd would be okay, but having more than a negligible chance of any other sort of transporter accident would definitely give me pause.

Shit like this always remind me of the videogame SOMA.

You’ve shed and replaced every atom that you were made of when you were born and many times over since then, are you still that same entity?

I tend to think what "you" are is the pattern formed by the various electrical and chemical signals in your brain and whatever other parts of your body are involved in cognition, and since patterns are ultimately information, and a completely identical copy of some information is the same information with nothing to distinguish it, that a sufficiently perfect copy of you literally is you, and as such, if the teleporter works the way fictional teleporters are generally described as working, then yes, it is you.

I know how teleportation machines work and I won't be using one.

The Trolly Problem of Thesius

Easiest one ever, ship of thesius here I come!

Define "you." An identical collection and pattern of atoms and subatomic particles? Then yes. A continuous consciousness as experienced by the "me" on the entry side of the teleporter? No.

Would I kill myself to save five lives and create one? Yes

Time to post Existential Comics again

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/1

Are there any flies buzzing around?

But if I don't do it, I'm not who I think I am.

If we’re talking about atom-by-atom reconstruction, then the question is about philosophical zombies.

I don’t put much stock in any philosophies that say you the constructed being definitely would be a zombie. But I do believe in the possibility that you the constructed being could be a zombie.

ok, i'm too stupid for this picture...why are commenters implying you die when you use the transporter? it's next to the rails isn't it?

And then you wake up. It was a dream

And YOU’RE DRIVING THE TRAIN!