Welcome back. A recent tragedy here in New York, a reminder of the costs of suicidal empathy,

76-year-old retired teacher Ross Falzone, thrown down the steps of a subway station by a psychopath.

Falzone was killed by a man who should have never been on the streets.

The accused killer, this 32-year-old, repeat offender, Ramele Burke,

smiling in a courtroom. That should anger you. Police say he was released from the psych

ward the same day that he killed Falzone. The New York Post, Miranda Devine, revealing that

a liberal New York woman who was attacked by that man just before he killed Falzone,

the 23-year-old refusing to cooperate with prosecutors after Burke attacked her on a subway as well,

she said, because maybe part of me was like, I don't want to put another black man in jail.

And now because she didn't cooperate with police, he went out just weeks later and murdered

a retired school teacher by throwing him down the stairs.

Dr. Gad's sad is the author of the book Suicidal Empathy.

It is a book that is exactly about moments like this

and what we're doing to ourselves

to achieve some kind of ridiculous virtue.

Doctor, good to have you back on.

Your reaction to that story and talk about,

you know, this is exactly your point.

Right.

I mean, it's too bad that that story didn't happen in

times included in the book, but the regrettable feature here is that I've got a million such

cases in the book. I mean, it's simply incredible. What I'd like the listeners and viewers to understand

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