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This is where I will be posting public content from my professional life as well as aspects of my personal life and hobbies. After 30 years of developing products and software systems for the Internet, I am finally starting to put a bit more public information on the Internet. As with nearly everything else on the Internet, this is very much a work in progress.
tl;dr: Christopher Hitchens is dead but fortunately we have Gad Saad...
Is empathy a good human trait? In reasonable doses yes, but when taken to its extreme, no. “All things in moderation,” as the saying goes. Gad Saad argues in Suicidal Empathy: Dying to be Kind that extreme empathy can lead to the destruction of an individual or an entire society. His primary thesis is that Western civilization has become too empathetic towards those who seek to destroy it or change its fundamental values. This level of empathy towards one’s enemies and/or destructors is what Saad terms “suicidal empathy”, a term that has now caught on in the political discourse...
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