Gad Saad on Empathy and Its Limits

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MEF speech-to-text, word-timed; edited only to withhold private names and to correct misheard public names, in square brackets. Timecodes are source time; each opens the source at that second.

1. 37:46It makes perfect evolutionary sense for every single person who will ever listen to
2. 37:51this chat to be more willing to jump in front of a bus to save their biological
3. 37:58children than random children in Rwanda.
4. 38:02That doesn't make you callous or sinister or evil.
5. 38:05It makes you a creature that is endowed with an evolutionary calculus.
6. 38:10So empathy, good. Suicidal empathy will bring the end of us.

Views expressed are the speaker's own.