I want to second using the website as a pwa. It works quite well.

I’d kill for a game with the scope of Skyrim where the NPCs truly felt like they were living their own lives.

Yeah the sad part is that, really, the best we can hope for is a post mortem. Rescue is almost impossible in this situation.

In practice, I agree with you. The transporter scans, disintegrates, and reconstructs the thing being transported. But when the thing being transported is reconstructed at a subatomic level it is effectively identical.

I can imagine the society we see in startrek having already worked through the moral and philosophical implications. I would have loved to see that addressed in an episode tho.