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Dr. Gad Saad: How "Suicidal Empathy" Is Undermining Western Society (53 min Video - definitely worth watching)
YouTube ^ | Jun 10, 2026 | Gad Saad

Posted on 08/10/2026 7:28:27 PM PDT by aquila48

“Western civilization is doomed, unless the core weakness of suicidal empathy is recognized and actions are taken that are hard but necessary for survival. Gad Saad articulates this well. All of Gad’s books, including this one, are great.” — Elon Musk

Dr. Saad examines a social and psychological pattern in which compassion can become misdirected in ways that weaken the cultural and moral foundations of Western society.

Drawing on more than 31 years as a professor and behavioral scientist, along with personal experience, he presents a scientific and evolutionary framework for understanding how emotional systems can become dysregulated, causing a positive human trait to be redirected in harmful ways and moral judgment to lose balance.

He explains how this pattern develops, which groups may be most vulnerable to it, and what can be done to guard against it. This work is for readers who want to understand how empathy can be manipulated, how emotional reasoning can override common sense, and what practical steps can help restore clear thinking and sound judgment.

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Suicidal Empathy, aka, pathological compassion - it's killing us!
1 posted on 08/10/2026 7:28:27 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: aquila48

Suicidal empathy is closely related to toxic femininity


2 posted on 08/10/2026 7:37:50 PM PDT by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead)
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To: aquila48

Thanks


3 posted on 08/10/2026 7:48:04 PM PDT by Words Matter
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To: aquila48

Suicidal empathy is understanding others in a way they are not. Libs have been doing since 9/11 at least.


4 posted on 08/10/2026 7:54:30 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: aquila48

It’s not really suicidal empathy. It’s get-your-neighbor-to-commit-suicide-al empathy.

The ones parading their “empathy” around have no intention of committing suicide.


5 posted on 08/10/2026 7:54:35 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: rdcbn1

That’s one example that he covers, but there are many more.


6 posted on 08/10/2026 7:57:44 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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The 19th Amendment was a huge mistake.


7 posted on 08/10/2026 7:59:22 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party - like the love child of La Cosa Nostra and Al Qaeda )
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To: aquila48

bump


8 posted on 08/10/2026 8:03:27 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. --DJT)
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To: aquila48

Dr. Saad is right on the money.

Virtue-signaling is synonymous with suicidal empathy.

Both are socialist creeds.


9 posted on 08/10/2026 9:20:10 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: Steely Tom

“It’s not really suicidal empathy. It’s get-your-neighbor-to-commit-suicide-al empathy.

The ones parading their “empathy” around have no intention of committing suicide.”

It’s not about individuals committing suicide through pathological compassion, it’s about a society committing suicide when there’s an orgy of pathological compassion that infects most of society.

The mind pathogen that is the root of this disease is postmodernism which has taken over universities in the west. And it has spawned literally dozens of suicidal mind viruses (chief among them multiculturalism) that have infected large portions of society, especially the higher echelons.

It renders the dominant native culture defenseless against attacks by foreign cultures that want to replace it because “all cultures are the same” according to multicults.


10 posted on 08/10/2026 9:34:04 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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Ok, I was taking the term to literally.

Your explanation makes sense.

Orwell called women “swallowers of slogans.” You probably already know that.


11 posted on 08/10/2026 10:01:14 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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“Orwell called women “swallowers of slogans.” You probably already know that.”

Yeah, the 19th wasn’t a good idea.


12 posted on 08/10/2026 10:26:59 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: BrexitBen
Virtue-signaling is synonymous with suicidal empathy.

Unfortunately, there are millions of idiots out there, that think the constitution is a suicide pact.

13 posted on 08/11/2026 12:11:35 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. 🎤 Father of USAF pilot. ✈️ Aviation is in our DNA)
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Suicidal empathy is what got Barak Obama elected twice


14 posted on 08/11/2026 5:13:38 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead)
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To: aquila48

Bookmarking.


15 posted on 08/11/2026 8:09:00 AM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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