The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - December 10, 2024


The Acquittal of Daniel Penny - Suicidal Empathy Did Not Prevail (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_764)


Episode Stats

Length

2 minutes

Words per Minute

126.59654

Word Count

337

Sentence Count

12

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary

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Heroism is something that is desired by women in their men. You want to fantasize about men who will take great risks to save those around them. Who are bold in the face of threats, who are willing to stand up and protect weaker people? That s the stuff of our evolutionary history. And so when a society is perfectly empathetic to a guy who is causing a great amount of strain to daily subway passengers who had been arrested many, many times by police and who now had walked in and was threatening everybody, and then a Marine decides to step up and subdue that risk, this is something you should be celebrating and rewarding, not deciding that you should punish him.

Transcript

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00:00:00.200 Hi everybody, this is Ghat Saad, just returned last night from a trip to Mar-a-Lago.
00:00:07.360 I'll have more to say about this at some point soon, but for now I wanted to briefly weigh
00:00:12.300 in on the Daniel Penny acquittal.
00:00:17.040 This is one instance where suicidal empathy has failed, and thank God for that.
00:00:22.360 But heroism is something that is desired by women in their men.
00:00:31.420 You want to fantasize about men who will take great risks to save those around them,
00:00:38.760 who are bold in the face of threats, who are willing to stand up and protect weaker people.
00:00:45.820 That's the stuff of our evolutionary history.
00:00:49.420 There are countless studies that look at what are the types of traits that women seek
00:00:55.140 in a man, and there is no culture that I'm aware of where women have said, we are really
00:01:01.600 excited about having sex with pear-shaped, high-pitched, nasal-voiced cowards.
00:01:09.260 That will get our libidinal drives going.
00:01:13.180 And so when you have a society that is perfectly empathetic to a guy who is causing a great
00:01:21.360 amount of strain to daily subway passengers who had been arrested many, many times by police
00:01:33.960 and who now had walked in and said, you know, I'm going to kill someone and was threatening
00:01:38.360 everybody, and then a Marine decides to stand up and subdue that risk, this is something that
00:01:46.980 you should be celebrating and rewarding, not deciding that you're going to punish him.
00:01:53.640 So imagine if throughout all of history, people decided to look away in complete apathy and cowardice
00:02:05.420 when something wrong was being done, we'd have a very different world.
00:02:10.020 So this is something that, of course, I discuss in my forthcoming book, Suicidal Empathy,
00:02:16.060 but I'm delighted that even though I might discuss this case, this is one instance where reason
00:02:23.380 has won, where masculinity has won, where honor and the willingness to get involved to protect
00:02:32.180 those around you has won, and I'm delighted that this gentleman has been acquitted.
00:02:38.840 Take care, everybody.