Suicidal Empathy by Gad Saad

Why read the book? Gad Saad wrote Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind. He is an evolutionary psychologist who studies how bad ideas spread. In this book he explains how empathy, a useful human trait, has become dangerous when it grows too strong and points in the wrong direction. Saad shows how Western societies now favour criminals, illegal migrants, and certain identity groups over their own citizens and victims. He links this to soft-on-crime policies, open borders, and demands for endless tolerance. The book builds on his earlier work about harmful ideas that damage clear thinking. Saad argues that when empathy overrides reason and self-preservation it becomes suicidal. He gives many real examples from recent years and ends with ways to protect society from this problem. The book is direct and easy to follow. Favourite quote A society dies when it cares more about exhibiting infinite tolerance and empathy than invoking its survival instinct. —Gad Saad What I Loved Suicidal Empathy…