Suicidal Empathy
The adage, "too much of a good thing is a bad thing" applies not only to individuals, but to societies as a whole. Suicidal empathy is maladaptive irrational altruism - simply put, compassion gone wild.
In his 2026 book, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind, Prof. Gad Saad explains how suicidal empathy has led to a tragic misalignment of moral priorities and rapid decline of Western society.
In his uncompromisingly direct article, How Female Voting Became Civilization’s Ultimate Self-Destruct Button, 29 January 2026, Jesús Enrique Rosas explains how the predominantly feminist trait of suicidal empathy has undermined the rule of law - and Western Civilization.
... And for women, that evolutionary panic has created a specific, civilization-ending glitch:
The absolute, terrifying need for consensus over reality.
Dr. Gad Saad came up with the most excellent moniker "Suicidal Empathy." It’s the drive to keep everyone "safe" and "included" until the house actually burns down...
This is why women didn't "fall for" the narratives of the last few years. The Covid hysterics, the Summer of Love riots, the "Borders are Literally Auschwitz" tweets. They didn't look at the data and get fooled. They looked at the appearance of consensus and did a synchronized swim right into it.
When the tribe (or the media, which is just the tribe's megaphone) says, "This is the thing we all believe now," the female brain snaps into place like a Lego. Evidence becomes a social liability and thus, perceived but ignored...
So yes, I clickbaited you hard with that title, because I'm not critiquing women's right to vote. I'm addressing the reality that women's hijacked bias towards consensus have lead us to... The Death of the Rule of Law...
But don't get me wrong: this is not only women’s failure. Because men have a LOT MORE to answer for this...
A comment posted to this article explained:
You're pointing at a real failure mode — consensus replacing reality-testing, empathy being used as a substitute for enforcement, and institutions collapsing because they refuse to tolerate friction. But reducing that pathology to "female voting" or biology is a category error.
Consensus-seeking today isn't female. It’s institutionalized conflict-avoidance - and it has been deliberately taught, rewarded, and enforced across education, HR culture, and institutional governance for two generations.
Men didn't resist it; they adapted to it...
What we're actually seeing is moral outsourcing. People no longer want to exercise judgment - they want coverage. Consensus provides that...
That failure isn't rooted in women's psychology. It's rooted in institutions that refuse to enforce boundaries while pretending empathy is a substitute for consequences...
In his 30 January 2026 article, Now You Will Know, James Howard Kunstler observes:
... the women of the Democratic Party were pre-disposed for this madness by a half century of feminism which has managed to evolve - as JD Haltigan describes so well - into a florid Cluster-B group personality derangement. (Psychologist Gad Saad calls it "suicidal empathy.") To put it bluntly, their desperate yearning to agree with each other and their maternal instincts to care for anything deemed needy... these hard-wired states-of-mind have been hijacked to now send them into a rage delirium on the frozen streets of Minneapolis (and elsewhere)...
The following videos offer insightful explanations of suicidal empathy.
The West's Suicidal Empathy, Dr. Gad Saad with Coleman Hughes, 20 October 2025:
16:48 - When Empathy Turns Pathological
24:43 - Where Did "Suicidal Empathy" Come From?
30:19 - The Left's Blind Spots & Empathy on the Right
Death of the West by Suicidal Empathy - My Talk @ Tel Aviv International Salon (THE SAAD TRUTH_1984)
Learn more:
Book: Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense, by Gad Saad, 2021.
Book: Pathological Altruism, by Barbara Oakley (Editor), Ariel Knafo (Editor), Guruprasad Madhavan (Editor), 2011.