About the Book: Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind
The bestselling author ofThe Parasitic Mindshows why empathy in politics leads
to civilizational collapse. What happens when a society elevates victimhood to a
virtue and decides that punishment is cruel You get the disease Dr. Gad Saad
calls suicidal empathy. And the West may be terminally infected. In his new
book, Suicidal Empathy, Saad unleashes a blistering critique of maladaptively
irrational altruism that has gripped our culture. This mind parasite hijacked
the empathy module of our progressive elite, leading to a catastrophic
miscalibration of moral priorities. The results are everywhere: from coddling
violent criminals to protecting rapists