‘Suicidal Empathy’ – When a Civilization Can’t Name the Threat | Gad Saad
With ‘suicidal empathy,’ violence and hatred become routine because a society trains itself to stop naming the ideologies that produce them. When outrage is silenced by moral labels, civilized repair mechanisms—honest diagnosis, debate, and correction—atrophy. That is the core argument: good intentions, untethered from clear thinking, can turn into moral blindfolds. The consequence is not just policy missteps. It is civilizational decline.
