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‘I Don’t Want to Put Another Black Man in Jail’
Kat Rosenfield
May 11, 2026

Suicidal empathy” is a politically loaded term to describe a decidedly human phenomenon: a romantic belief in the power of compassion to heal all wounds. The suicidally empathetic person believes that trauma is the root of all evil, that those who hurt us can be loved into submission, that the goal of justice is to humanize rather than punish—no matter how ghastly the offense. Which is why, when I think about suicidal empathy, I don’t first think about immigration, or criminal justice, or even the murder of an elderly man in New York City by a violent serial offender this past weekend. Instead, I think about the NASCAR driver who, in 2005, was mauled nearly to death during a birthday party for a chimpanzee named Moe. St. James Davis and his wife, LaDonna, adopted Moe as a baby in 1967 after his mother was killed by poachers. They raised him in their home in California as though he were their child, and they also made excuses for him, like a child, when he began biting people. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST Dr Gad Saad: We must stop suicidal empathy from destroying the US Suicidal empathy results in the misfiring of an adaptive virtue in ways that result in the willful suicide of one’s civilization. In Japan, seppuku was the act of self-disembowelment that a samurai would commit to redress the shame of his actions. I argue that the West is committing civilizational seppuku via suicide by empathy. In his gargantuan, 12-volume “A Study of History,” famed British historian Arnold J. Toynbee examined the factors that cause civilizations to go extinct, the key insight of which has been summarized as follows: “Civilizations die from suicide, and not by murder.”