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This is an interesting philosophical question, but I think the answer is quite straight forward. Just because the clone came about from an existing human does not prevent them from being a separate individual with all the rights and obligations of a separate individual. The easiest answer to the question lies in identical twins. Identical twins started off in the world as a single fertilized egg. At some inexplicable point the egg divides into two beings with the identical DNA. They are actually clones. If later on one twin should kill the other, it would be murder. The same would go for someone who were to kill their own clone. It would surely be murder.

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