Western civilization has been so successful in providing personal safety that natural selection is no longer eliminating people who lack the most basic life-preserving instincts. https://t.co/UUFJxxtEEc

— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) November 30, 2025

I think this is accurate. Just as with the clownish anti-vax rightists where anti-vax beliefs can only prosper where there are safe, effective vaccines, the sort of sentiments that Alyssa expresses can only proliferate when people are safe and cloistered from most harms.

It’s a disease of prosperity and safety. In both cases. “Suicidal empathy” like many other symptoms of terminal civilizational decline will be largely wiped out in the world war that’s coming up in the next decade or so.

Everyone buckled in?