Even if you remain steadfast and refuse to do depraved, pragmatic things like firing heroes with high stress levels or straight up using them as cannon fodder, the temptation to do so WILL come up as they become more and more aggravating to work with. It's chilling if your the kind that really gets invested in stories and characters.

yeah, this game does everything in it's power to tempt you into throwing away your humanity. Sometimes they will stay there more than a week, this is normal, and they. When you come back to the hamlet the heroes that you left will be cured. I mean, it's not like recruiting heroes to replace the dead or the ones you fired costs a dime. You put them in the abbey or the tavern, you click confirm and then you must let a week pass, to do this you must go into a dungeon, it doesnt matter if you win or if you decide to retreat. It stresses you out, and it makes it more tempting to stop caring about your characters and people, and it might tempt you to view them as expandable. It's aggravating, and it makes you get annoyed at your employees.

This can force you to place your hero in facility you haven't upgraded that much compared to others, meaning they are more expensive and less effective, meaning you have to either upgrade those spots or waste money and time you otherwise wouldn't have if not for that quirk.

Worst affliction darkest dungeon