The Negative Impact of Poor Character Writing on the Quality of Dawntrail's MSQ

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Second, look at the fact that there are two Otis existing at the same time, for me basically render any argument that can be had about the Endless as real person moot. Because it shows that what we see is indeed, nothing more than data that can be procreate at will because they are not unique. Otherwise, if I kill one Otis it's the murder of one person, but if the system simulate 10 Otis, does that mean i committed murder ten times?

I don't think this follows. If you step into a Star Trek style transporter and on the other side two of you come out, does that mean one of the two isn't a person?

Or for a perhaps more XIV-specific framing, if immediately after the sundering Emet-Selch kills ten of a sundered ancient's "shades" across ten reflections, is he guilty of one murder or ten?