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Excuse me... But, we're talking about Dr. Evil, who wouldn't care about anyone being tortured except his own body. Wouldn't he know that he was in no danger of being tortured and say "to hell with any other copy of me."???
Right, the argument assumes he doesn't care about his copies. The problem is that he can't distinguish himself from his copies. He and the copies both say to themselves, "Am I the original, or a copy?" And there's no way of knowing, so each of them is subjectively in danger of being tortured.