Suicidal Empathy Video - Produced by the Wonderful Team of PragerU (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_1000)
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Suicidal empathy is a malignant force that threatens Western civilization. It hijacks our desire to be kind, misdirects it to the wrong recipient, and exploits the natural proclivity to be empathetic. Suicidal empathy tries to override your capacity for reason, and hijacks your ability to reason.
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The great British historian Arnold Toynbee asked himself this question.
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We in the West, the inheritors of the greatest civilization ever created, are witnessing
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As an evolutionary behavioral scientist, I believe empathy is a noble virtue and a central
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The Oxford Dictionary defines empathy as the ability to understand and share the feelings
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It sounds great, and often is, especially when you're empathetic toward the people close
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to you, your spouse, your children, your friends.
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When empathy serves as the only filter for decision-making, replacing a rational and
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adaptive calculus of prudence, discernment, and justice, empathy can cause great harm.
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In fact, it can be fatal. The serial killer, Ted Bundy, used empathy to lure women to their violent
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deaths. He would pretend to be injured, sometimes with a fake sling or cast on his arm. He would
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ask his soon-to-be victim for help loading items into his car, and then, when they turned their
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back, he would strike. Bundy killed through kindness, exploiting the natural proclivity
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to be empathetic. Suicidal empathy endangers not just well-meaning individuals, it threatens
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entire societies, indeed, all of Western civilization. Let's look at a couple of general
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and then more specific examples. Mass immigration. In 2015, the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel,
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instituted an open-door immigration policy, especially for Muslim migrants, most of whom
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had no intention of assimilating into their host societies. Perhaps her suicidal empathy
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toward migrants was meant as penance for her country's crimes against humanity. But a decade
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later, Germany, as well as most of Europe, nearly all of whom have followed Merkel's example,
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is dealing with the consequences. Vastly increased rates of rape, murder, and social disintegration.
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In the wake of the death of drug-addicted felon George Floyd in May 2020, an idea arose,
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namely that a racist police system was murdering innocent people of color.
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Though this was easily refuted by the actual data, suicidally empathetic mayors and city
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councils in places like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Philadelphia cut their police budgets.
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The very people who were supposed to be protected.
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Let's look at a few specific cases of suicidal empathy.
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Canadian-born Omar Khadr joined the Taliban and murdered an American soldier in Afghanistan.
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The U.S. gave him a 40-year sentence, but turned him over to Canadian authorities after
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Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government, which suffered from stage 4 suicidal empathy,
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gave Khadr $8 million and apologized for his detention.
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The University of Minnesota Twin Cities Medical School
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required the class of 2026 to pledge their support
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not to mention honoring all indigenous ways of healing
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Because as they wheel you into the operating room,
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what you really want to know is that your surgeon
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is up on how the local tribes handled medical problems 500 years ago. Under the Biden White
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House, the Federal Aviation Administration implemented a recruitment program for people
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with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities. Imagine how safe you'll feel
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when that woke logic reaches the cockpit. No society can long survive such an explosion
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of suicidal empathy. Is there a cure? Yes. But first, we must understand where this madness
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comes from. Suicidal empathy is driven by misplaced guilt. The suicidally empathetic
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person feels guilty for being born in the prosperous, free West. We might call this
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privilege guilt, a common affliction among Westerners, especially affluent, highly educated
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ones. To inoculate yourself against this parasitic idea, you must take at the very least these three
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actions. First, never shut off your rational mind. Suicidal empathy tries to override your capacity
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for reason. It hijacks your desire to be kind, misdirects it to the wrong recipient in the wrong
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amount, and in so doing harms you and others. Second, always ask, what happens next? Cause and
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effect is an immutable law. Actions have consequences, sometimes very bad ones. Third,
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don't be tolerant of all viewpoints. Not everything is as good as everything else.
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Some ideas are better than others. Some cultures are better than others. Some religions are more
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peaceful than others. These actions were once the default operating system for nearly everyone born
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in the West. Now, they are a matter of civilizational survival. The good news is this, suicide is a
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choice. The West still has time to save itself, but not much. I'm Gad Saad, author of Suicidal
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Empathy, Dying to be Kind, for Prager University. Thank you for watching this video. To keep Prager
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