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I think there are significant ethical situations.
Is it ethical to forcefully merge with one's own copy? To create unconscious copy and use it as slave/whatever? To forcefully create someone's copies? To discard one's own copy?
Why would conscious agent be less significant if it can split/merge at will? Of course, voting will be meaningless, but is it reasonable do drop all ethics?
More importantly, does it count as gay or masturbation if you have sex with your copy?
With regard to your own copies, it's more a matter of practicality than ethics. Before you make your first copy, while you're still uncertain about which copy you'll be, you should come up with detailed rules about how you want your instances to treat each other, then precommit to follow them. That way, none of your copies can ever force another to do anything without one of them breaking a precommitment.
What if second copy experiences that "click" moment, which makes his/her goals diverge, and he/she is unable to convince first copy to break precommitment on merging or to inflict this "click" moment on first copy?