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Q3 2026
When Kindness Kills: Has the West Become Too Compassionate?
Join us for the next Liberty Forum Book Club. This quarter, we’re exploring a topic that sounds almost harmless — but shouldn’t: Empathy. When protecting criminals matters more than protecting victims, and when speaking hard truths gets you labeled a bigot, something has gone badly wrong. Dr. Gad Saad has a name for it.
This quarter’s reading:
Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind by Gad Saad (2026)
An instant #1 NYT bestseller from the evolutionary psychologist and author of The Parasitic Mind. Saad argues that modern “empathy politics” has inverted Western moral priorities— turning empathy into a tool that shields wrongdoers, silences common sense, and leaves ordinary people worse off.
Discussion Questions
Where’s the line between genuine kindness and enabling bad behavior?
What would a liberty-consistent theory of empathy actually look like — one that neither abandons compassion nor weaponizes it?
If Saad is right, what’s one thing that could actually change?
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