Gad Saad: When Empathy Becomes Dangerous
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Episode: Gad Saad: When Empathy Becomes Dangerous
Pub date: 2026-05-26
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Gad Saad returns to discuss his new book Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind, a provocative argument that empathy is not a moral trump card. Empathy can illuminate suffering, but it can also distort judgment when it is treated as an unquestionable virtue, applied selectively, or insulated from consequences.
Saad's central claim is that many Western institutions…
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