When Empathy Becomes Suicidal with Gad Saad

Join us for Objectively Speaking with Gad Saad on Wednesday, May 27 @ 2 PM PT / 5 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, Saad applies biology towards understanding human behavior. Join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, YouTube, and LinkedIn.