Well,<p>The fear could be that society would come to view gene editing as a dangerous, subversive or crank activity and so impose regulations that would be so stringent even scientists couldn&#x27;t use it.<p>Whatever one thinks of LSD, it&#x27;s notable that it went from an &quot;exciting exploration&quot; to a thing that had to be suppressed at all costs fairly quickly in the 1960s.<p>Despite this society presenting itself as a capitalist meritocracy, numerous examples show it doesn&#x27;t generally follow the paradigm of &quot;it&#x27;s your body and you can do what you want with it&quot;.