Gad Saad on Empathy and Psychopathy

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1. 3:40Aristotle, several thousand years ago, explained through his golden mean the idea
2. 3:46that too little of something is not good, too much of something is not good, and much
3. 3:50of life is about finding that sweet spot, that golden mean.
4. 3:53That exact principle applies to empathy versus suicidal empathy.
5. 3:58No empathy renders me a psychopath.
6. 4:01Too much empathy towards the wrong targets makes me suicidally empathetic.

Views expressed are the speaker's own.