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Laura asked:

What would an existentialist believe about cloning? Obviously, there would be no religious objection.
But how would an existentialist view the concept morally, socially, or metaphysically?

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I'm not sure it is so obvious that an existentialist would not have religious objections. Although Sartre
was an atheistic existentialist, not all existentialists are atheist. See, for example, Kierkegaard. As for
the other questions, I am not sure — it depends on their version of existentialism, I suspect, or their
other intellectual commitments. I cannot see any obvious way existentialism in general would come
down in this case.

Tim Sprod