perspicacity

perspicacity

Conflict & Human Rights

On the kindness of strangers

Governments may suck, but people are kind

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Richard Nield
Mar 25, 2025
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I recently realised I’ve travelled to more than 50 countries. TL;DR My conclusion: governments may suck, but people are kind.

I’m hugely fortunate to have been born at a time and into a society where such travel is even a possibility. Even today, a not insignificant proportion of the world’s population has never left the country of their birth – sometime…

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