Suicidal Empathy

Key Insight 1: Empathy is a noble virtue that can metastasize into civilizational suicide

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Key Insight 2: Empathy follows an inverted-U: too little breeds psychopaths, too much breeds paralysis

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Key Insight 3: Suicidal empathy is a hyperactive emotion targeting the wrong people

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Key Insight 4: When truth feels unkind, ideologues reclassify it as forbidden knowledge

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Key Insight 5: Treating all cultures and immigrants as interchangeable is a fatal category error

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Key Insight 6: Blank-slate thinking recasts violent criminals as society's true victims

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Key Insight 7: "Settled science" is an oxymoron that smuggles ideology past scrutiny

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Key Insight 8: Abandoning meritocracy functions like the Church selling indulgences

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Key Insight 9: The welfare state runs on empathy and never runs out of other people's money

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Key Insight 10: Resist the immediate dopamine hit of looking compassionate now

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