The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - Discussing Suicidal Empathy on Gutfeld! (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_992)

00:00:00.000 Time for a conversation about Gadsad's new publication.

00:00:05.940 That's right, Gadsad's great new book, Suicidal Empathy, is available next week.

00:00:10.320 I've read a couple of your books. They're always just mind-opening.

00:00:15.060 I want to read the quote on the front of the book.

00:00:17.680 This is from a guy you might have heard of. His name's Elon Musk.

00:00:23.080 He writes,

00:00:23.460 Western civilization is doomed unless the core weakness of suicidal empathy is recognized and actions are taken that are hard but necessary for survival.

00:00:31.880 Gad Satt articulates this well.

00:00:33.800 All of Gad's books, including this one, are great.

00:00:35.880 So you basically introduced this phrase into the zeitgeist, and now you hear suicidal empathy everywhere.

00:00:45.060 Can you just explain it?

00:00:46.820 Right.

00:00:47.380 So empathy is a perfectly rational virtue to have, right?

00:00:51.780 we are a social species for you and i to have a meaningful conversation i need to put myself in

00:00:56.780 your mind and vice versa so within well modulated regions to be empathetic is a great thing the

00:01:03.200 problem as is the case with many psychiatric disorders is when it misfires so if it becomes

00:01:09.360 hyperactive if it is invoked in the wrong situations towards the wrong targets you have

00:01:15.840 the perfect cocktail for suicidal empathy what are there's i mean there's some kind of for us

00:01:22.020 easy examples like you know let's say take the drug addict on the street or the home or a homeless

00:01:31.640 encampment or uh restorative justice can you just expand on like what are the the examples you think

00:01:38.460 are the best for somebody new to this so i'll give one for domestic and one of foreign so domestic

00:01:44.280 would be say felons right the idea is that they're born perfectly nice and it's only society that

00:01:51.480 renders them to become criminals especially if they are quote felons of color so why would we

00:01:57.460 then penalize them punish them by putting them in prison when they've already been punished by a

00:02:03.400 white supremacist society shouldn't they have a 187th chance to have a second chance at life

00:02:09.980 yeah so that would be an example of suicidal empathy. Suicidal empathy is

00:02:13.280 also what makes women be empathetic towards their rapists so there's an

00:02:17.540 example from Germany where a woman was gang raped by a bunch of Middle Eastern

00:02:21.860 men she told the police that they were speaking in German rather than what they

00:02:26.240 were speaking in which is Arabic and Farsi because she didn't want them to

00:02:30.600 receive Islamophobia you know. That reminds me of like women who write love

00:02:38.040 letters to men on death row and they will end up marrying them uh they love the bad boy god

00:02:45.240 um but yeah yeah immigration would be another place where we have suicidal empathy to presume

00:02:51.720 that all immigrants are equally likely to assimilate within the western tradition or

00:02:56.760 within the american experience is silly right elon musk is an immigrant so as muhammad ahmed

00:03:03.560 who comes from waziristan the likelihood of them internalizing the values of the west are probably

00:03:09.960 not equal so this idea that we are all equally likely to contribute to society is a form of

00:03:15.720 suicide yeah and there is uh what is the we have like 30 seconds what is one of the ways to rid

00:03:29.240 people of this kind of like bizarre filter well to make sure that your empathy is being directed

00:03:35.960 towards the relevant people if a trolley is coming to kill three of my children or five

00:03:40.760 random strangers i am much more likely to pull the lever so it kills the five random strangers

00:03:46.200 that doesn't make me a callous person it makes me someone that has an evolutionary calculus that

00:03:51.720 turns my investments to the right people so be empathetic but within rational bounds and stay

00:03:58.360 away from trolley. You know, why is it that every example about whether people die or not involves

00:04:06.120 a trolley? Why not just ban the damn trolleys? Thank you. Congrats on the book. Up next, you or Merrill.

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - May 10, 2026

Discussing Suicidal Empathy on Gutfeld! (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_992)

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