Compassion without boundaries becomes quiet self-erasure. People keep saying yes while their body says no. Generosity turns into depletion. Exhaustion gets confused with virtue. Attention frays, resentment grows, and clarity fades. Hume noted that impressions strike harder than ideas. The body’s signals carry truth the mind explains away. Sun Tzu taught that all warfare is based on deception. Burnout is the inner war where self-deception dresses up as service. And like a model failing under dist