Gad Saad

She goes, well, what do you think about their positions on queer people?

She goes, well, I'm queer.

He goes, oh, you're queer, so what do you think about what they would do to you?

She goes, well, they would kill me.

She goes, but then you still support them.

She goes, yes.

He goes, but it doesn't bother you that you're supporting a group that would kill you for the way that you are?

She goes, no, the fact that they would kill me doesn't mean that they don't deserve my support.

Well, that's the wood cricket, right?

I mean, there is no evolutionary mechanism that says I'm going to build an affiliation with

with a group that I know would kill me.

But she is so kind, she's so empathetic, she so transcends the earthly survival instincts that she has ascended to a higher plane of suicidal empathy.

So it literally is straight out of what you said.

Other examples of suicidal empathy.

So I talk in the book about something I introduce as cultural theory of mind.

So theory of mind is, as I discussed earlier, it's at the individual level.

For you and I to have a meaningful conversation, I need to be in your mind and vice versa.

Right.

Cultural theory of mind is the same principle but it operates at the cultural level.

So if culture A has a set of values that it adheres to and if it presumes that those values are processed in exactly the same way by the other culture and that's a wrong presumption,