Discussing Suicidal Empathy on Gutfeld! (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_992)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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🗓️ 10 May 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Link to Greg's show: https://nation.foxnews.com/gutfeld/ _______________________________________ Pre-order Suicidal Empathy: https://lnk.to/SuicidalEmpathy Pre-order signed copy of Suicidal Empathy: https://premierecollectibles.com/suicidalempathy _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad To subscribe to my exclusive content on X, please visit my bio at https://x.com/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted on May 10, 2026 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_2025: https://youtu.be/Ss_yOLRK3ng _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

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0:00.0	Time for a conversation about Gad's new publication.
0:05.0	That's right, Gatsats' great new book.
0:07.0	Suicidal Empathy is available next week.
0:10.0	I read a couple of your books.
0:12.0	They're always just mind-opening.
0:15.0	I want to read the quote on the front of the book.
0:17.0	This is a, from a guy you might have heard of.
0:20.0	His name is Elon Musk.
0:23.1	He writes, Western civilization is doomed unless the core weakness of suicidal empathy is
0:27.5	recognized and actions are taken that are hard but necessary for survival. Gadsad
0:32.3	articulates as well, all of Gads books, including this one, are great. So you basically introduced this phrase into the zeitgeist,
0:41.7	and now you hear suicidal empathy everywhere.
0:45.0	Can you just explain it?
0:46.7	Right.
0:47.3	So empathy is a perfectly rational virtue to have, right?
0:51.8	We are a social species.
0:53.6	For you and I to have a meaningful
0:55.0	conversation I need to put myself in your mind and vice versa so within well
0:59.6	modulated regions to be empathetic is a great thing the problem as is the case
1:04.4	with many psychiatric disorders is when it misfires so if it becomes hyperactive
1:09.9	if it is invoked in the wrong situations, towards the
1:14.3	wrong targets, you have the perfect cocktail for suicidal empathy. What are there's, I mean,
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