I was recently listening to evolutionary behavioral scientist Gad Saad discussing what he calls suicidal empathy, and I found myself agreeing with much of his diagnosis. Saad argues that Western civilization has developed a potentially fatal condition in which empathy, normally a virtue, becomes an instrument of self-destruction. A society can become so consumed with …I was recently listening to evolutionary behavioral scientist Gad Saad discussing what he calls suicidal empathy, and I found myself agreeing with much of his diagnosis. Saad argues that Western civilization has developed a potentially fatal condition in which empathy, normally a virtue, becomes an instrument of self-destruction. A society can become so consumed with …