Is Sarang a complete idiot?

[humanoid]

Sarang and the whole continuity thing is a plot device added to generate drama about consciousness. I don't think a single player ever doubted about the stupidity of his actions because continuity is impossible if two separate entities are what happens after a brain-scan (Catherine even confirms this numerous times). What I don't doubt is that such stupidity could totally happen in a real scenario.

Its only stupid in the context of the ARK, as in an encapsulated world where its inhabitants have no connection/interaction with the real world (though its never brought up ingame if that would be possible, if not then I would seriously question the sense behind the whole "saving humanity" thing).

However things are a bit different if both the original and the copy have to coexist in the same "reality", like it was the case with Simon-2 and Simon-3.
Both would think they are the real one, each wants to live the life of the other, what other choices would you have but to decide that there can be "only one"?

And even if you would be determined enough to decide that its perfectly fine for the other you to exist, you can never know if the other you would suddenly decide to change his mind based on what he experienced after you copied yourself (enjoy a life in permanent paranoia ).

PS: Cut and paste does the same thing btw, it copies the file to the destination and deletes the original afterwards (if everything went correctly).
Its really just a question of how you define "transfer" to answer if it is okay to kill the original after you got copied or if you should literally be moved "bit by bit", immediately deleting the just transferred data before waiting for the whole thing to complete.