What if his name is Scotty, and rather than zapping you, he merely stored you in his transporter buffer and delayed beaming you to your destination for a moment?
What if he didn't delay at all? Did he kill you just by letting your atoms get ripped apart and reassembled elsewhere?
What if he didn't delay at all? Did he kill you just by letting your atoms get ripped apart and reassembled elsewhere?
Or is this whole continuity-of-self thing a sham?