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Empathy is vital—but when it’s applied blindly, it can become ‘suicidal,’ warns evolutionary behavioral scientist Gad Saad, who argues that unchecked emotional reflexes may be eroding societal stability. #CounterPoints

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@GadSaad What the fuck is this , this a genocidal freak who is a Lebanese and worked with Mossad . Fuck you @AlArabiya

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Fact check Gad Saad isn’t evotolutionary behavioral scientist, please don’t mislead the public. Dr. Saad holds a PhD from Cornell University in Biology? Nope in Marketing; (He Minored in Cognitive Studies and Statistics) He has MS from Cornell University, and an MBA (Specialization: Marketing; Mini-Thesis: Operations Research) and a BSc (Mathematics and Computer Science) both from McGill University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada). That’s it.

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@GadSaad You forgot to add “Former Mossad Agent” in his title. Saudi waging psychological warfare against Muslims

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@GadSaad Why are you giving an Islamophobic former Mossad agent a platform to spew out such bull crap??!

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@GadSaad Shame on you Saudis for platforming a man who hates Islam, an avowed Mossad Agent.

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@GadSaad Fuck you Al Arabiya, fuck MBS and fuck Gad Saad. Gad Saad is an infamous rabid Islamaphobe. Yet you give him a platform, you sneaky enemies of Islam.

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@GadSaad Mossad agent talking about empathy

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@GadSaad Why tf would you give this piece of trash a platform?

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@GadSaad Even Canadian media doesn’t invite the Mossad agent but these shameless Arabs ar e something else

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@GadSaad Does he mean like Israel’s insatiable rage & need for revenge?

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🚨 WOW! Gad Saad says “SUICIDAL EMPATHY” is DESTROYING THE WEST 🚨 “Empathy is great… but when it goes HYPERACTIVE, it becomes FATAL” “Pretending everyone assimilates the same? That’s CIVILIZATIONAL SELF-HARM” “When victims PROTECT their attackers to avoid ‘offense’… it’s BROKEN”
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Elon Musk on “Suicidal Empathy”: Gad Saad has a good way to describe it “Suicidal empathy” - where you prey upon people’s empathy so much that it becomes suicidal to your own country and culture You feel sorry for the criminals, but show zero empathy for the victims This is why someone arrested 47 times for violent offenses gets released and then murders somebody We've become so blindly compassionate toward predators that "we're actually allowing our women to get r@ped and our children to get killed" We should have empathy. But that empathy must go to the victims - not the criminals This suicidal empathy has gone too far
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Elon Musk on “Suicidal Empathy”: Gad Saad has a good way to describe it “Suicidal empathy” - where you prey upon people’s empathy so much that it becomes suicidal to your own country and culture You feel sorry for the criminals, but show zero empathy for the victims This is why someone arrested 47 times for violent offenses gets released and then murders somebody We've become so blindly compassionate toward predators that "we're actually allowing our women to get r@ped and our children to get killed" We should have empathy. But that empathy must go to the victims - not the criminals This suicidal empathy has gone too far

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Elon Musk: The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is the empathy exploit “There's a guy who posts on the internet who's great, Gad Saad, and he talks about basically suicidal empathy. There's so much empathy that you actually suicide yourself. So we've got civilizational suicidal empathy going on. I believe in empathy. I think you should care about other people, but you need to have empathy for civilization as a whole and not commit to a civilizational suicide. The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy. The empathy exploit. They're exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response. I think empathy is good, but you need to think it through and not just be programmed like a robot. Its weaponized empathy is the issue.”
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Elon Musk: The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is the empathy exploit “There's a guy who posts on the internet who's great, Gad Saad, and he talks about basically suicidal empathy. There's so much empathy that you actually suicide yourself. So we've got civilizational suicidal empathy going on. I believe in empathy. I think you should care about other people, but you need to have empathy for civilization as a whole and not commit to a civilizational suicide. The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy. The empathy exploit. They're exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response. I think empathy is good, but you need to think it through and not just be programmed like a robot. Its weaponized empathy is the issue.”

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GAD SAAD: WHEN EMPATHY TURNS SUICIDAL, CIVILIZATION PAYS THE PRICE Gad Saad delivered a blunt warning about what happens when a society abandons its survival instincts in the name of blind empathy. Using a tribal metaphor, Saad described 2 rival groups watching each other across a river, each calculating whether it's the right time to attack. What keeps the peace? Mutual respect - or at least mutual fear. But when one tribe decides that defending itself is morally wrong, things start to fall apart fast. Saad argues that this is exactly what’s happening in parts of the modern West: a celebration of total passivity, even in the face of violence, chaos, or destruction. Defending your family, culture, or values is now treated as something “phobic.” His conclusion is stark: “They want to rape your women, don't attack them because it's phobic. They want to take over your society, don't fight back because it'll be phobic. They wish to urinate on your culture, your heritage, your religion, your civilization, don't fight back because that would be phobic.” Source: Gad Saad
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GAD SAAD: WHEN EMPATHY TURNS SUICIDAL, CIVILIZATION PAYS THE PRICE Gad Saad delivered a blunt warning about what happens when a society abandons its survival instincts in the name of blind empathy. Using a tribal metaphor, Saad described 2 rival groups watching each other across a river, each calculating whether it's the right time to attack. What keeps the peace? Mutual respect - or at least mutual fear. But when one tribe decides that defending itself is morally wrong, things start to fall apart fast. Saad argues that this is exactly what’s happening in parts of the modern West: a celebration of total passivity, even in the face of violence, chaos, or destruction. Defending your family, culture, or values is now treated as something “phobic.” His conclusion is stark: “They want to rape your women, don't attack them because it's phobic. They want to take over your society, don't fight back because it'll be phobic. They wish to urinate on your culture, your heritage, your religion, your civilization, don't fight back because that would be phobic.” Source: Gad Saad

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if you want to see actual "suicidal empathy", it's what Palestinians showed genocidal Zionist settlers as talked about by Bella and Gigi Hadid's father Mohamed Hadid, whose family took them in as refugees only to be expelled from their own homes by them. Literal suicidal empathy. It is incredibly ironic and depraved that deranged fanatical Zionist Mossad agent Gad Saad has now popularized the phrase "suicidal empathy" with Elon Musk's artificial algorithmic boosting to launder the Israeli death-cult's genocide, when in fact the term perfectly applies to Palestinians showing actual suicidal empathy to Zionist Jewish settlers. Settlers who colonized their lands under the guise of being poor persecuted refugees who just wanted safety, thereby allowing them to metastasize like a cancer in their midst and then unleashing a genocidal project that has continued for over a century to this very day. As always, genocidal Zionists like morbidly obese disgusting freak pedophile-rapist looking admitted Mossad agent Gad Saad then turned their actual invention and use of suicidal empathy into a weapon to launder their genocidal Israeli death and rape-cult depravity by projecting it onto their victims, the very Palestinians who were subject to their weaponization of suicidal empathy. It's astonishing how every Zionist accusation really is a confession.
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if you want to see actual "suicidal empathy", it's what Palestinians showed genocidal Zionist settlers as talked about by Bella and Gigi Hadid's father Mohamed Hadid, whose family took them in as refugees only to be expelled from their own homes by them. Literal suicidal empathy. It is incredibly ironic and depraved that deranged fanatical Zionist Mossad agent Gad Saad has now popularized the phrase "suicidal empathy" with Elon Musk's artificial algorithmic boosting to launder the Israeli death-cult's genocide, when in fact the term perfectly applies to Palestinians showing actual suicidal empathy to Zionist Jewish settlers. Settlers who colonized their lands under the guise of being poor persecuted refugees who just wanted safety, thereby allowing them to metastasize like a cancer in their midst and then unleashing a genocidal project that has continued for over a century to this very day. As always, genocidal Zionists like morbidly obese disgusting freak pedophile-rapist looking admitted Mossad agent Gad Saad then turned their actual invention and use of suicidal empathy into a weapon to launder their genocidal Israeli death and rape-cult depravity by projecting it onto their victims, the very Palestinians who were subject to their weaponization of suicidal empathy. It's astonishing how every Zionist accusation really is a confession.

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"Suicidal empathy" is the idea that too much misdirected kindness can kill a civilization. The term comes from Gad Saad's new book that currently sits at the No. 1 spot on the New York Times Bestseller list. He explains it through a parasite and its host: a wood cricket naturally abhors water, but when hijacked by a brain hairworm, it happily jumps in and drowns. The hairworm needs the cricket dead to complete its reproductive cycle. Once it controls both the cricket's thinking and its instincts, it owns it completely. Saad argues the same thing happens to societies. First your rational thinking gets hijacked, then your emotional system. When both are gone, so is your survival instinct. Elon Musk has called it a threat that will "end civilization." The core question: at what point does kindness stop being a virtue and start being a vulnerability? Source: Gad Saad, Joe Rogan Experience
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"Suicidal empathy" is the idea that too much misdirected kindness can kill a civilization. The term comes from Gad Saad's new book that currently sits at the No. 1 spot on the New York Times Bestseller list. He explains it through a parasite and its host: a wood cricket naturally abhors water, but when hijacked by a brain hairworm, it happily jumps in and drowns. The hairworm needs the cricket dead to complete its reproductive cycle. Once it controls both the cricket's thinking and its instincts, it owns it completely. Saad argues the same thing happens to societies. First your rational thinking gets hijacked, then your emotional system. When both are gone, so is your survival instinct. Elon Musk has called it a threat that will "end civilization." The core question: at what point does kindness stop being a virtue and start being a vulnerability? Source: Gad Saad, Joe Rogan Experience

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Gad Saad explains that communism isn't just a bad theory, it is in direct conflict with human nature: “So when you then come along and say, 'No, I'm going to erase your evolved human nature and impose a socio-political, economic system on you that is incongruent with human nature,' we can predict that it's going to fail. It's failed everywhere that it's been tried. But rest assured, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren will usher in the 'real' communism, and it will work when they become the reproductive queens.” Gad Saad
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Gad Saad explains that communism isn't just a bad theory, it is in direct conflict with human nature: “So when you then come along and say, 'No, I'm going to erase your evolved human nature and impose a socio-political, economic system on you that is incongruent with human nature,' we can predict that it's going to fail. It's failed everywhere that it's been tried. But rest assured, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren will usher in the 'real' communism, and it will work when they become the reproductive queens.” Gad Saad

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GAD SAAD: PARASITIC MIND IS WHEN YOU WANT YOUR RAPIST TO BE HAPPIER THAN YOU… “The guy who had been sodomized… felt very, very bad and very guilty that now the Somali guy was not going to have a maximally flourishing life in Mogadishu and he felt bad that it was because of his doing. So that's the perfect example of the utter complete walking parasite, both in terms of his thoughts and in terms of his emotional system.” Source: Gad Saad
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GAD SAAD: PARASITIC MIND IS WHEN YOU WANT YOUR RAPIST TO BE HAPPIER THAN YOU… “The guy who had been sodomized… felt very, very bad and very guilty that now the Somali guy was not going to have a maximally flourishing life in Mogadishu and he felt bad that it was because of his doing. So that's the perfect example of the utter complete walking parasite, both in terms of his thoughts and in terms of his emotional system.” Source: Gad Saad

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Gad Saad just nailed why toxic empathy is so harmful. Empathy itself is healthy and evolutionary, we need it to connect as a social species. But when it hyper-fires or gets aimed at the wrong targets, it becomes toxic empathy. He compared it to germ OCD: washing your hands after shaking a sick person’s hand is smart. Washing them for 8 hours until your skin peels off? That’s the mechanism gone wrong. Same with empathy. Aristotle called it the golden mean 2000+ years ago — too little makes you a psychopath, too much makes you self-destructive. In a culture that celebrates unlimited empathy as a supreme virtue, many are burning themselves out or getting exploited. When we direct endless compassion toward people or ideas that actively undermine our own societies, it leads to self-sabotage on a civilizational scale. Boundaries matter. Where do you draw the line between healthy empathy and toxic empathy?
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Gad Saad just nailed why toxic empathy is so harmful. Empathy itself is healthy and evolutionary, we need it to connect as a social species. But when it hyper-fires or gets aimed at the wrong targets, it becomes toxic empathy. He compared it to germ OCD: washing your hands after shaking a sick person’s hand is smart. Washing them for 8 hours until your skin peels off? That’s the mechanism gone wrong. Same with empathy. Aristotle called it the golden mean 2000+ years ago — too little makes you a psychopath, too much makes you self-destructive. In a culture that celebrates unlimited empathy as a supreme virtue, many are burning themselves out or getting exploited. When we direct endless compassion toward people or ideas that actively undermine our own societies, it leads to self-sabotage on a civilizational scale. Boundaries matter. Where do you draw the line between healthy empathy and toxic empathy?

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Gad Saad exposes how Britain’s grooming gang scandal is the ultimate example of “suicidal empathy.” He said in the most conservative estimate, over 250,000 White British girls were systematically r*ped on an “industrial scale” — but authorities were more concerned about “Islamophobia” than protecting children. SAAD: “How about in Britain?” “Remember the...they call them ‘grooming gangs.’ I mean, maybe some of your audience doesn’t know this so it’s worth saying.” “For the past 30 years, up and down England, in every big city and every small city...the charitable estimate is 250,000 plus British White girls were systematically r*ped on an industrial-scale level.” “And the British authorities said, okay, well, we’ve got two competing objectives here.” “We can either protect our children from gang r*pes, or we could not arrest the perpetrators because that would marginalize the Muslim community and lead to Islamophobia.” “Yeah, let’s go with that one!” “And this reminds me of another Canadian, a late Canadian...Norm Macdonald who said...do your remember the quote?” “I’m paraphrasing, so I don’t have the exact quote...” “What really scares me if Muslims were to detonate a nuclear bomb and kill 50 million Americans, is the backlash of Islamophobia.” “He was being satirical, but that PERFECTLY captures suicidal empathy.” Gad Saad
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Gad Saad exposes how Britain’s grooming gang scandal is the ultimate example of “suicidal empathy.” He said in the most conservative estimate, over 250,000 White British girls were systematically r*ped on an “industrial scale” — but authorities were more concerned about “Islamophobia” than protecting children. SAAD: “How about in Britain?” “Remember the...they call them ‘grooming gangs.’ I mean, maybe some of your audience doesn’t know this so it’s worth saying.” “For the past 30 years, up and down England, in every big city and every small city...the charitable estimate is 250,000 plus British White girls were systematically r*ped on an industrial-scale level.” “And the British authorities said, okay, well, we’ve got two competing objectives here.” “We can either protect our children from gang r*pes, or we could not arrest the perpetrators because that would marginalize the Muslim community and lead to Islamophobia.” “Yeah, let’s go with that one!” “And this reminds me of another Canadian, a late Canadian...Norm Macdonald who said...do your remember the quote?” “I’m paraphrasing, so I don’t have the exact quote...” “What really scares me if Muslims were to detonate a nuclear bomb and kill 50 million Americans, is the backlash of Islamophobia.” “He was being satirical, but that PERFECTLY captures suicidal empathy.” Gad Saad

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🚨🇺🇸 ELON REDEFINES “DEEP EMPATHY,” AND IT MAKES PEOPLE UNCOMFORTABLE Elon is pushing back on the modern rebrand of empathy, arguing it’s been hijacked to excuse policies that hurt innocent people. The point is sharp: when repeat offenders are cycled back onto the streets, the people who suffer aren’t abstractions, but victims who never get press conferences or hashtags. Empathy that ignores consequences isn’t compassion… it’s a feel-good slogan with a body count: “We want to have empathy for our fellow human beings, and of course we want to… but we need to have empathy that is deep, not shallow. Deep empathy is caring about the victims of the criminals. So why do we have repeat violent offenders released on the streets, often with no bail? It’s crazy. They prey upon innocent people, and our streets are not safe. How can America be the greatest country in the world, and we don’t even have safe streets?” Source: Lacey, Elon Musk
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🚨🇺🇸 ELON REDEFINES “DEEP EMPATHY,” AND IT MAKES PEOPLE UNCOMFORTABLE Elon is pushing back on the modern rebrand of empathy, arguing it’s been hijacked to excuse policies that hurt innocent people. The point is sharp: when repeat offenders are cycled back onto the streets, the people who suffer aren’t abstractions, but victims who never get press conferences or hashtags. Empathy that ignores consequences isn’t compassion… it’s a feel-good slogan with a body count: “We want to have empathy for our fellow human beings, and of course we want to… but we need to have empathy that is deep, not shallow. Deep empathy is caring about the victims of the criminals. So why do we have repeat violent offenders released on the streets, often with no bail? It’s crazy. They prey upon innocent people, and our streets are not safe. How can America be the greatest country in the world, and we don’t even have safe streets?” Source: Lacey, Elon Musk

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Gad Saad warns ‘suicidal empathy’ is pushing the West toward collapse | Rachel Wolf, Fox News From reactions to the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks to gender ideology and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), author and scholar Gad Saad warns that Western civilization is on the brink of collapse. In his new book, "Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind," Saad argues that the West has taken compassion to a dangerous place by prioritizing ideological virtue-signaling over truth and common sense. "I'm not in the least bit arguing that empathy is a bad thing, but just like Aristotle explained to us several millennia ago, all good things in moderation," Saad told Fox News Digital. "If you're not in the least bit empathetic, you're likely to be a psychopath, if you are too empathetic, if it hyperactivates, if it targets the wrong people in the wrong circumstances, then that becomes suicidal empathy," he explained. Saad points to the West's reaction after Hamas' Oct. 7 massacre in Israel as an example of the phenomenon, noting that sympathy quickly shifted away from Israeli victims as criticism of Israel's military response in Gaza grew. "You would have thought that the orgiastic depraved killing of 1,200 mainly Jewish people... the worst single day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust would have afforded the world an opportunity to exhibit empathy towards the Jews. Well, alas, as we very quickly found out, October 7th was forgotten," Saad said. For Saad, the backlash against Israel in the aftermath of the Hamas attacks reflected ideological shifts that had been taking place in the West for decades. He argued that misplaced empathy eventually morphs into what he calls "civilizational seppuku," referring to a ritual suicide historically associated with Japanese samurai. According to Saad, many of these ideas began on university campuses and later spread into politics, the media and culture. The result, he said, is a culture that is increasingly uncomfortable with objective definitions of what were once considered to be basic concepts, such as gender. "Once you are fully parasitized, you end up with your most recent addition to the US Supreme Court, not having the self-assuredness to say, ‘Oh, of course I know what a woman is,’" he said, referring to an infamous moment from Justice Katanji Brown Jackson's 2022 confirmation hearing. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., asked Jackson to define the word "woman." Jackson refused, stating that "I'm not a biologist." When speaking with Fox News Digital, Saad mocked Jackson's answer, saying that ordinary people routinely recognize obvious realities without seeking specialized expertise. "By that logic, when I next have to choose which type of Belgian shepherd to bring into my home, I better seek the help of a veterinarian. Because I might simply choose a giraffe to be my Belgian shepherd, because I don't have the expertise to distinguish between the quadrupedal giraffe and the quadrupedal dog." While Saad views the debate as absurd on its face, he believes the worldview behind it can have serious real-world consequences, such as antisemitism. "A society that normalizes Jew hatred is exhibiting huge signs of moral decay," he told Fox News Digital. Saad, who is Jewish, was born in Lebanon but fled the country with his family in 1975 during the civil war and eventually settled in Canada. He told Fox News Digital that while in Canada, he did not experience much antisemitism until 1998, adding that since then "it has been accelerating at a rather breathtaking rate." While working as a professor at Concordia University, Saad announced that he was taking a leave of absence in 2024. "It became very, very difficult for, you know, a high-profile Jewish professor who's outspoken in his defense of the Jewish people to just walk in on campus," Saad said. He added that the atmosphere became serious enough that he felt compelled to "read the warning on the proverbial walls." "If you permit for such open, genocidal hatred of a group, it never results in a good outcome," he said. Saad currently serves as a scholar at the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom at the University of Mississippi and will be a distinguished professor there next year. With the election of President Donald Trump, many thought that the ideas behind DEI and gender theory were dead, but Saad warned there is only so much one president can do and emphasized the importance of medium and long-term solutions. He noted that while political momentum can shift quickly, true cultural change takes time. Even with the apparent backlash against these ideologies, Saad still encounters professors who are afraid to speak out. He told Fox News Digital that he's seen a slight increase in the number of professors who email him praising his work, but many of them end their messages by asking for anonymity if he chooses to share them. "The fact that you write such a cowardly last sentence to your email suggests that very few people are yet willing to pick up the mantle and actually fight this battle," he said.
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Gad Saad warns ‘suicidal empathy’ is pushing the West toward collapse | Rachel Wolf, Fox News From reactions to the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks to gender ideology and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), author and scholar Gad Saad warns that Western civilization is on the brink of collapse. In his new book, "Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind," Saad argues that the West has taken compassion to a dangerous place by prioritizing ideological virtue-signaling over truth and common sense. "I'm not in the least bit arguing that empathy is a bad thing, but just like Aristotle explained to us several millennia ago, all good things in moderation," Saad told Fox News Digital. "If you're not in the least bit empathetic, you're likely to be a psychopath, if you are too empathetic, if it hyperactivates, if it targets the wrong people in the wrong circumstances, then that becomes suicidal empathy," he explained. Saad points to the West's reaction after Hamas' Oct. 7 massacre in Israel as an example of the phenomenon, noting that sympathy quickly shifted away from Israeli victims as criticism of Israel's military response in Gaza grew. "You would have thought that the orgiastic depraved killing of 1,200 mainly Jewish people... the worst single day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust would have afforded the world an opportunity to exhibit empathy towards the Jews. Well, alas, as we very quickly found out, October 7th was forgotten," Saad said. For Saad, the backlash against Israel in the aftermath of the Hamas attacks reflected ideological shifts that had been taking place in the West for decades. He argued that misplaced empathy eventually morphs into what he calls "civilizational seppuku," referring to a ritual suicide historically associated with Japanese samurai. According to Saad, many of these ideas began on university campuses and later spread into politics, the media and culture. The result, he said, is a culture that is increasingly uncomfortable with objective definitions of what were once considered to be basic concepts, such as gender. "Once you are fully parasitized, you end up with your most recent addition to the US Supreme Court, not having the self-assuredness to say, ‘Oh, of course I know what a woman is,’" he said, referring to an infamous moment from Justice Katanji Brown Jackson's 2022 confirmation hearing. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., asked Jackson to define the word "woman." Jackson refused, stating that "I'm not a biologist." When speaking with Fox News Digital, Saad mocked Jackson's answer, saying that ordinary people routinely recognize obvious realities without seeking specialized expertise. "By that logic, when I next have to choose which type of Belgian shepherd to bring into my home, I better seek the help of a veterinarian. Because I might simply choose a giraffe to be my Belgian shepherd, because I don't have the expertise to distinguish between the quadrupedal giraffe and the quadrupedal dog." While Saad views the debate as absurd on its face, he believes the worldview behind it can have serious real-world consequences, such as antisemitism. "A society that normalizes Jew hatred is exhibiting huge signs of moral decay," he told Fox News Digital. Saad, who is Jewish, was born in Lebanon but fled the country with his family in 1975 during the civil war and eventually settled in Canada. He told Fox News Digital that while in Canada, he did not experience much antisemitism until 1998, adding that since then "it has been accelerating at a rather breathtaking rate." While working as a professor at Concordia University, Saad announced that he was taking a leave of absence in 2024. "It became very, very difficult for, you know, a high-profile Jewish professor who's outspoken in his defense of the Jewish people to just walk in on campus," Saad said. He added that the atmosphere became serious enough that he felt compelled to "read the warning on the proverbial walls." "If you permit for such open, genocidal hatred of a group, it never results in a good outcome," he said. Saad currently serves as a scholar at the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom at the University of Mississippi and will be a distinguished professor there next year. With the election of President Donald Trump, many thought that the ideas behind DEI and gender theory were dead, but Saad warned there is only so much one president can do and emphasized the importance of medium and long-term solutions. He noted that while political momentum can shift quickly, true cultural change takes time. Even with the apparent backlash against these ideologies, Saad still encounters professors who are afraid to speak out. He told Fox News Digital that he's seen a slight increase in the number of professors who email him praising his work, but many of them end their messages by asking for anonymity if he chooses to share them. "The fact that you write such a cowardly last sentence to your email suggests that very few people are yet willing to pick up the mantle and actually fight this battle," he said.

Owen Gregorian

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The trolley problem is a classic example in experimental philosophy: a trolley is barreling down the tracks toward three of your biological children. You can pull a lever to divert it toward five random strangers instead. Strict utilitarian logic would say you should sacrifice your three children to save five strangers. But that’s not what most people choose, even though three is smaller than five. Gad Saad argues that this kind of moral calculus is normal for humanity. But today, he says, modern social movements often demand a form of empathy that asks people to suppress evolutionary instincts, deny obvious truths, and prioritize the feelings of a small minority over the rights and realities of the broader population. “I wish to live in a world where trans people’s rights are perfectly honored and everybody should live free of institutional bigotry… In that sense, I’m very much of a social liberal. That doesn’t mean that in the service of that goal, I murder truth and reality.”
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The trolley problem is a classic example in experimental philosophy: a trolley is barreling down the tracks toward three of your biological children. You can pull a lever to divert it toward five random strangers instead. Strict utilitarian logic would say you should sacrifice your three children to save five strangers. But that’s not what most people choose, even though three is smaller than five. Gad Saad argues that this kind of moral calculus is normal for humanity. But today, he says, modern social movements often demand a form of empathy that asks people to suppress evolutionary instincts, deny obvious truths, and prioritize the feelings of a small minority over the rights and realities of the broader population. “I wish to live in a world where trans people’s rights are perfectly honored and everybody should live free of institutional bigotry… In that sense, I’m very much of a social liberal. That doesn’t mean that in the service of that goal, I murder truth and reality.”

The Free Press

29,189 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce

Dario Amodei warns that software may soon become so cheap it feels almost free. The old model, building software for mass distribution to justify cost may no longer apply. Apps could be generated on-demand, even for simple, one-off use cases. But this flexibility comes at a cost: entire careers built around traditional software engineering may vanish. Dario believes we can adapt but most people still don’t grasp how big this shift really is.
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Dario Amodei warns that software may soon become so cheap it feels almost free. The old model, building software for mass distribution to justify cost may no longer apply. Apps could be generated on-demand, even for simple, one-off use cases. But this flexibility comes at a cost: entire careers built around traditional software engineering may vanish. Dario believes we can adapt but most people still don’t grasp how big this shift really is.

Wes Roth

81,457 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce