The biggest problem we have right now is an excess of empathy as government policy.
Liberals define morality as empathy/feeling good. They use the victimhood hierarchy to determine WHO to feel sorry for and protect.
Since Muslims are exotic to the West, they are considered the victim no matter what they do. Liberals define themselves as the oppressors/evil compared to Muslims, so they consider Muslim attacks justified.
By saying love is moral and love is always the solution, they force themselves to be helpless victims - “If I just stand here and radiate love, I’ll heal your hate, it is my fault you abuse me and kill my children, because you didn’t get enough love, and I’m not radiating the love hard enough to heal you, you poor helpless baby.”
Their unwillingness to admit that ideology, not just irrational emotion, drives Islam prevents them from challenging the ideas that drive Islamic conquest. And their view that they are protective Mommies to solve everything by love results in many liberals being paralyzed into accepting the abuse by Muslims while blaming themselves for it ... perfect dhimmi from the perspective of the Muslims. They both agree “it is the fault of the evil infidel for their abuse, they aren’t good enough”.
The West’s leaders saying “love trumps hate” and demanding we all stand by helpless as Muslims kill us is the classic civilizational example of how an excess of empathy kills, literally.
There is something the moralists overlook,
Or more likely don’t give a damn about,
When they cry: “Pity the beaten foe!”
What they’re saying, in effect, is:
“Kill our fellows tomorrow rather than the enemy today.”
But they don’t care to have it put to them like that.
They want their wars won clean and comfortable, with a clear conscience;
Their consciences being much more precious than their own soldiers’ lives.
General Sir Harry P. Flashman
"Flashman and the Mountain of Light"
George McDonald Fraser
Paul Joseph Watson posted a very good video talking about this very thing just yesterday.