Gad Saad delivers a powerful warning about the danger facing Western civilization: nations do not usually collapse because they are murdered from the outside — they collapse when they lose the moral clarity and courage to defend themselves.
Quoting the great British historian Arnold Toynbee, Saad explains that “civilizations do not die from murder. They die from suicide.”
His message is not that compassion is wrong. The opposite. Saad argues that empathy is a noble virtue — but when empathy is detached from wisdom, truth and self-defense, it can become dangerous.
A society begins to collapse when it shows more concern for criminals than for victims, more sympathy for those who attack its values than for those who uphold them, and more interest in appearing compassionate than in protecting innocent people.
