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I mean that was kind of a false choice forced onto the story by the writers. They could have done a transporter cloning and split one while keeping the other. You could argue the ethics of transporter cloning, which sadly none of the series ever really address in depth, but it's been proven to be possible with Riker. One could argue that it was a unique circumstance which couldn't be replicated but that's lazy writer handwaving to get around the whole show becoming about transporter clones. Just another of the many things introduced in one episode then forgotten about forever which should have changed the entire trek universe and could be the basis of an entire series by itself.
Riker was a freak accident caused by a storm, they couldn’t reliably create transporter duplicates or they would have