Suicidal empathy

Suicidal empathy is a concept from behavioral science and evolutionary psychology popularized by author Gad Saad. It describes a phenomenon where a society, individual, or leader exhibits excessive, misdirected compassion—prioritizing the feelings of others over logic, self-preservation, and long-term consequences.

Quotes

• From a certain angle, these look like expressions of empathy, but an empathy that is deprived of discernment. It is a kind of compassion that fixates on individual circumstances while disregarding the individual actions that contribute to those circumstances.

  In its most ruinous manifestation, this outlook compels its adherents to validate self-destructive behaviors, ratify the delusions of the violently inclined, and discount personal agency as if such a thing were the province of only a privileged few.

  • Noah Rothman, Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence in America

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Suicidal empathy on Wikipedia