| Event type: | Meeting |
| Date: | 20 July 2026 |
| Time: | 10:30 am - 11:30 am |
| Group: | PHILOSOPHY |
| Venue: | South Street Centre |
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Please join us this month for what promises to be a lively and thought-provoking discussion. Our two topics may seem quite different at first, but both invite us to explore the idea of boundaries, where “I” end and someone else begins, and where kindness stops being helpful. If a perfect copy of you existed, would it really be you, and could you persuade it to take on the jobs you would rather avoid? And if kindness is usually seen as a virtue, can it ever go too far?
Topic: Would a perfect copy of you be you?
- “Imagine a machine that creates a perfect physical and psychological copy of you — same memories, same personality, same appearance. The original remains alive. Which one is ‘you’?”
- For the ladies could you persuade your copy to do your share of the washing and ironing?
- For the male members could we persuade our copies to do all of the odd jobs her indoors keeps nagging about?
Topic: Is it possible to be too kind?
- You can only be “too kind” when kindness stops being about helping others and becomes something else: avoidance, self‑protection, control, or moral vanity.
- As the advert says “Would you give someone your last Rolo?