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Possessions are one thing, but what about people around me? It's not like each copy can receive its own set of parents, friends, love interest(s), etc.
Depends on your love interest(s), some might be thrilled to have several yous.
That's more of a reason to not create copies in the first place.
Well, if we've posited the ability to duplicate people, then presumably they could. That would just exacerbate the situation, though, not resolve it.
That said, it's not like I stop having my parents when I gain a sibling. If tomorrow there exist two copies of me, then both copies have the same parents, and my parents have a new son. So? What has anyone lost?
The same thing is even more true with friends. My friends have other friends, and that's perfectly fine; why should it be less so if one of those other friends is identical to me?
Admittedly, if one is monogamous -- or, more to the point, if one's love interest(s) is (are) -- then a resource problem does exist.
That said, while I'm fairly commitedly monogamous in the real world, I suspect my attitudes on the matter would change in a world where personal identity can be duplicated freely; it would not surprise me if the same were true of my husband.