"Does anything scare you, doctor? Anything irrational?"
And in universe even Broccoli was scared of the damned things and he was an engineer. Heck, the Will Riker/Thomas Riker transporter accident more closely fits the fax analogy. That was not one person reduced to bits, zipped to a location and put back together. Two beams doesn't give you two sets of atoms. Between all the different ways we see transporters used on top of the replicators and holodecks that share some of the technology I'd go everywhere in a shuttle.
