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Gad Saad
An Evening at the Reagan Library Discussing Suicidal Empathy (THE SAAD TRUTH_2037)
This is an onstage conversation at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library where the evolutionary psychologist Gad Saad lays out the central idea of his book Suicidal Empathy. His claim, argued throughout, is that empathy is a real and good evolved trait, but like everything else it follows a curve with a peak, and past that peak empathy turns self-destructive. When compassion is hyperactive, aimed at the wrong targets, and unmoored from any cost-benefit reasoning, Saad says it stops protecting a society and starts dismantling it. He calls that failure mode suicidal empathy.
