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The Anatomy of a Post-Bravery Society — The Cost of Kindness

Mikael Colville-Andersen · 26 Oct 2025

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  1. It’s heroic, yes. But heroism has a half-life. For three years, the country has run on unpaid labour and unmeasured compassion. The longer the war drags on, the more that volunteer energy begins to look less like virtue and more like a system failure that people are too decent to abandon.

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