Khaled Salih

Where Does the Error Go?

A Backspace Key Review of Gad Saad’s Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

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Khaled Salih
Aug 03, 2026
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03 August 2026

Some books are written to persuade.

Others are written to diagnose.

Gad Saad’s Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind belongs primarily to the second category. It is not simply a political critique of contemporary Western policies. It is an attempt to identify a deeper malfunction: how a virtue can become detached from the reality it was meant t…

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