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Originally Posted by dcarson
There will also be people that don't care as long as the problem isn't visible. Human traffickers for example. Refugees might also be desperate enough in cases to take the risk.
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I think in the long term if you can't prove a negative effect, this sort of taboo is going to be unsustainable.
There are just too many cases where people are going to do it anyway and then go on to live decades in the community without obviously suffering for it. We could save his life if we could teleport him to the hospital *right now*, if only we could use the teleporter we could evacuate from this death trap before it's too late, if we teleport in a company they could hold this critical position long enough to bring up the real reinforcements.... And once you've done a few of those sorts of life and death choices it's an easy slope to "if we teleport an expert from the engineering department over right now they could shut down the process before we lose this 200 million dollar plant - anybody want to volunteer for a million dollar bonus check"