English transcript

dying to be kind highlights how misguided kindness is responsible for

some of the world's most catastrophic policy decisions that author is God

sod and he joins us now good morning to you good morning good morning this was

endorsed by Elon and Elon Musk also put something on social media about your

book what led you to write this well basically I saw that every single moral

calculus that you could think of was completely inverted right rate rape

victims deserved less empathy than the rapists squatters deserved more empathy

than homeowners American vets deserved less empathy than Guatemalan illegal

refugees and so I started thinking what could cause people to have such a

breakdown of their moral compass and that led me to write this book and what

is that what did you find why do we have judges or leaders that that coddle

for example really dangerous criminals well because take for example if you're

a felon who's already committed 186 different felonies but you're black well

the argument would go and this stems from you know the university education

of these judges the argument goes that these felons of colors of color are

already victimized by a white supremacist society so to then now

punish them even more that's like a double whammy because apparently they

don't have personal agency we need to be kind to them and give them 200 chances

well what's what's your take on what's happening in Fairfax County you saw we