“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”.
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Book review by Bishop Robert Barron
Evolutionary behavioural scientist Gad Saad argues in his book, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind, that a distorted version of empathy is being used to undermine moral, economic, and political structures
The book contends that this “suicidal empathy” prioritises feelings over objective reality, leading to societal instability and the potential for totalitarianism.
Respecting others’ feelings is generally viewed as a positive act, as intentionally causing emotional harm can be considered an act of injustice
Empathy becomes problematic when it is exaggerated to the point that it obstructs truth, reality, and justice
Source: Bishop Robert Barron