Suicidal Empathy in Late Liberalism

A political-cultural dynamic where humanitarian universalism (empathy toward outsiders and expansive moralism) becomes self‑undermining for the society that practices it, producing political and social costs like weakened cohesion, immigration pressures, and illiberal reactions. The idea foregrounds systemic incentives (elite career, property, and political interests) that make such 'suicidal' empathy durable rather than merely pathological. — If adopted, the phrase reorients debates about immigration and multiculturalism from individual psychology to a system‑level critique of liberalism’s internal logic, sharpening political contestation over limits and trade‑offs.