The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - November 11, 2026


What is Suicidal Empathy？ - Hosted by Jonah Platt (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_1078)

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1 minute

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164.54

Word count

279

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22


Transcript

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00:00:00 What is suicidal empathy?
00:00:01 First, let me explain what I'm not arguing because most of the detractors who've started
00:00:06 to attack me have completely misconstrued my position.
00:00:10 Empathy is a wonderful virtue to possess.
00:00:13 We are a social species.
00:00:14 For you and I to have a meaningful conversation, I need to put myself in your mind and vice
00:00:19 versa.
00:00:19 That's called cognitive empathy or theory of mind.
00:00:22 So empathy definitely serves as a social lubricant.
00:00:27 helps us instantiate our human sociality. But like most things in life, too little of something is
00:00:34 not good. Too much of something is not good. And much of life is about finding that sweet spot.
00:00:40 Aristotle had explained this to us more than a few millennia ago in his Nicomachean Ethics,
00:00:46 where he talked about the golden mean. If a soldier is not at all courageous, if he's cowardly,
00:00:50 that's bad. If he's too courageous so that he becomes a reckless martyr, he dies quickly.
00:00:55 that's not good. And so I apply that principle to empathy. If I have no empathy or very little
00:01:01 empathy, that's typically a trait of a psychopath. But if I have too much empathy, if it hyperfires
00:01:08 in the wrong situations towards the wrong targets, I end up with suicidal empathy.
00:01:15 So let me explain how I would exhibit suicidal empathy from an open border perspective.
00:01:20 If I internalize the parasitic idea of cultural relativism, which basically argues that there are no human universals, everything has to be measured according to the idiosyncratic realities of that culture.
00:01:33 If some culture wishes to engage in child brides, shut up, racist.
00:01:38 So the parasitic idea leads to suicidal empathy.