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How do civilizations die?
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The great British historian Arnold Toynbee asked himself this question.
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Here is his answer.
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They die not by murder, but by suicide.
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We in the West, the inheritors of the greatest civilization ever created,
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are witnessing this right before our very eyes.
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I call this phenomenon suicidal empathy.
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As an evolutionary behavioral scientist,
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I believe empathy is a noble virtue and a central feature of our humanity.
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The Oxford Dictionary defines empathy as the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
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It sounds great, and often is,
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especially when you're empathetic toward the people close to you,
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your spouse, your children, your friends.
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But empathy can lead us astray.
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When empathy serves as the only filter for decision-making,
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replacing a rational and adaptive calculus of prudence,
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discernment and justice, empathy can cause great harm.
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In fact, it can be fatal.
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The serial killer, Ted Bundy,
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used empathy to lure women to their violent deaths.
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He would pretend to be injured,
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sometimes with a fake sling or cast on his arm.
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He would ask his soon-to-be victim for help loading items into his car,
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and then, when they turned their back, he would strike.
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Bundy killed through exploiting the natural proclivity to be empathetic.
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Suicidal empathy endangers not just well-meaning individuals.
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It threatens entire societies, indeed all of Western civilization.
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Let's look at a couple of general and then more specific examples.
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Mass immigration.
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In 2015, the Chancellor of Germany,
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Angela Merkel, instituted an open-door immigration policy,
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especially for Muslim migrants, most of whom had no intention of assimilating into their host societies.
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Perhaps her suicidal empathy toward migrants was meant as penance for her country's crimes against humanity.
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But a decade later, Germany,
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as well as most of Europe,
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nearly all of whom have followed Merkel's example,
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is dealing with the consequences.
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Vastly increased rates of rape, murder, and social disintegration.
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Defund the police.
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In the wake of the death of drug-addicted felon George Floyd in May 2020,
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an idea arose, namely that a racist police system was murdering innocent people of color.
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Though this was easily refuted by the actual data,
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suicidally empathetic mayors and city councils in places like Los Angeles,
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San Francisco, and Philadelphia cut their police budgets.
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Who suffered?
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The very people who were supposed to be protected.
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Let's look at a few specific cases of suicidal empathy.
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Canadian-born Omar Khadr joined the Taliban and murdered an American soldier in Afghanistan.
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The U.S gave him a 40-year sentence,
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but turned him over to Canadian authorities after 10 years at Guantanamo Bay.
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Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government,
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which suffered from stage 4 suicidal empathy,
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gave Qatar $8 million and apologized for his detention.
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The University of Minnesota Twin Cities Medical School required the class of 2026 to pledge their support for diversity,
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equity, and inclusion, not to mention honoring all indigenous ways of healing that have been historically marginalized by Western medicine.
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Because as they wheel you into the operating room,
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what you really want to know is
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that your surgeon who got there for some reason other than
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merit is up on how the local tribes handled medical problems 500 years ago.
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Under the Biden White House,
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the Federal Aviation Administration implemented a recruitment program for people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities.
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Imagine how safe you'll feel when that woke logic reaches the cockpit.
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No society can long survive such an explosion of suicidal empathy.
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Is there a cure?
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Yes, but first we must understand where this madness comes from.
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Suicidal empathy is driven by misplaced guilt.
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The suicidally empathetic person feels guilty for being born in the prosperous, free West.
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We might call this privilege guilt,
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a common affliction among Westerners,
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especially affluent, highly educated ones.
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To inoculate yourself against this parasitic idea,
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you must take at the very least these three actions.
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First, never shut off your rational mind.
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Suicidal empathy tries to override your capacity for reason.
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It hijacks your desire to be kind,
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misdirects it to the wrong recipient in the wrong amount,
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and in so doing, harms you and others.
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Second, always ask, what happens next?
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Cause and effect is an immutable law.
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Actions have consequences, sometimes very bad ones.
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Third, don't be tolerant of all viewpoints.
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Not everything is as good as everything else.
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Some ideas are better than others.
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Some cultures are better than others.
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Some religions are more peaceful than others.
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These actions were once the default operating system for nearly everyone born in the West.
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Now, they are a matter of civilizational survival.
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The good news is this.
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Suicide is a choice.
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The West still has time to save itself, but not much.
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I'm Gad Saad, author of Suicidal Empathy,
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Dying to be Kind, for Prager University.

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Wichtige Vokabeln & Phrasen

  • suizidale Empathie - suicidal empathy
  • Empathie - empathy
  • Rationalität - rationality
  • Gesellschaft - society
  • Migration - migration
  • Kriminalität - crime
  • Schutz - protection
  • Folgen - consequences

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