Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

· Broadside Books · Narrated by Gad Saad
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The bestselling author of The Parasitic Mind shows 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 to branding self-defense as toxic behavior. We are witnessing a civilization in rapid decline. Lunatic policies are instituted because we prioritize the feelings of ostensibly marginalized groups over The Truth, criminals over victims, and squatters over homeowners. This is not humane; it’s an active dismantling of the pillars that keep us safe and free.

This crisis of empathy creates a horrifying system of inverse morality where the strong and successful are demonized, and the destructive are celebrated. Just look at the insane inversions we tolerate daily: we prefer illegal migrants over our own legal citizens and veterans, permit drug addicts to threaten children’s safety in parks, and elevate transgender 'women' above biological women in sports and safe spaces. Common sense is dying in a deluge of misguided compassion.

Suicidal Empathy is your wake-up call. Stop ignoring your survival instincts in the name of political correctness. This isn't just misguided policy; it is the ultimate expression of a culture actively choosing its own demise.

READ BY THE AUTHOR The bestselling author of The Parasitic Mind shows 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 m...

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Douglas Pieper
May 15, 2026
The audiobook was excellent. I preferred hearing it in the author's voice. The book is a must read for anyone struggling to grasp the craziness of leftist empathy that often seems to favor the undeserving at the expense of good people.
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Guy Grobler
June 5, 2026
An outstanding analysis of the ills of Western society. How the western world developed a hyped self critical view which has led it to become over tolerant and over permissive to other societies that don't reciprocate the west's largesse. Furthermore, it identifies the psychological needs of Westerns to be over kind as a means of gratification to themselves, so kind that they would even accept their own demise as a consequence. Suicidal empathy is the willingness of some in the west to commit metaphorical seppuku, so long as it's done for the supposed good cause of correcting past western guilt.
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Liam Lambe
May 18, 2026
this book contains objective truths
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Gad Saad, Ph.D. is a professor and an evolutionary behavioral scientist. He has authored numerous scientific papers and pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, he is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. He is the host of The Saad Truth podcast, and his book, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense, became an international bestseller.

Gad Saad, Ph.D. is a professor and an evolutionary behavioral scientist. He has authored numerous scientific papers and pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, he is a leading public intellectual who often writes and spe...

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