I found my distaste for teleporting either never existed or was lost at a very young age, I think due to Star Trek teaching me that I ought to anticipate reappearing. Would people raised in an environment where physical continuity was not valued be persuadable that they should? I doubt it, but then there would be biases in play there too …
My impression is that you’re atypical in this. I watched Star Trek, read books with teleporting, and so on, and while I was completely unbothered by its portrayal in fiction (mostly because, I think, they deliberately showed it as non-destructive), I nonetheless have a visceral aversion to the prospect of personally being teleported by destructive means. (The issue is also, for example, explicitly discussed in Dan Simmons’ Ilium and most of the characters are suitably horrified when they discover that the teleporters they’ve been using are destructive, although they get over it in the interests of expediency.)
I found my distaste for teleporting either never existed or was lost at a very young age, I think due to Star Trek teaching me that I ought to anticipate reappearing. Would people raised in an environment where physical continuity was not valued be persuadable that they should? I doubt it, but then there would be biases in play there too …
My impression is that you’re atypical in this. I watched Star Trek, read books with teleporting, and so on, and while I was completely unbothered by its portrayal in fiction (mostly because, I think, they deliberately showed it as non-destructive), I nonetheless have a visceral aversion to the prospect of personally being teleported by destructive means. (The issue is also, for example, explicitly discussed in Dan Simmons’ Ilium and most of the characters are suitably horrified when they discover that the teleporters they’ve been using are destructive, although they get over it in the interests of expediency.)