Gad Saad
@GadSaad · May 7, 2026
Dear @sapinker, I am a huge admirer of your cognitive/linguistic work and your influential efforts in popularizing the evolutionary psychological lens. But I'm afraid that you may have missed the key tenets of suicidal empathy. It has nothing to do with "right-wing contempt for
Steven Pinker@sapinker· May 7, 2026I discussed the limits of empathy in The Better Angels of Our Nature, but it's still a powerful force in the decline of violence and expansion of well-being, and I find the new right-wing contempt for empathy ("toxic empathy," "suicidal empathy") contemptible. With a presidential
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Forgive Pinker, he is half-retarded.
Look on the bright side: at least it’s only half.
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