When Empathy Becomes Suicidal with Gad Saad

Join us for Objectively Speaking with Gad Saad on Wednesday, July 1 @ 1 PM PT / 4 PM ET. ‍

What happens when a society elevates victimhood to a virtue and decides that punishment is cruel?

In Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind, Gad Saad unleashes a blistering critique of maladaptively irrational altruism that has gripped our culture. Building on themes from his earlier work on the spread of destructive ideas, Saad argues that a miscalibrated sense of empathy is driving many of today’s most dangerous cultural and policy failures. Gad Saad previously joined The Atlas Society to discuss his book, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense, which examines how certain destructive ideas have managed to take hold in places like academia and popular culture. A Lebanese-Canadian Professor of Marketing at Concordia University and currently a scholar at the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom at the University of Mississippi, Saad applies biology towards understanding human behavior. Join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, YouTube, and LinkedIn.