> in the US you could imagine an insurance company that competed on lower premiums conditional upon certain gene edits being applied to covered children.
On one hand, this sounds entirely economically reasonable (and even humanitarian).
On the other hand, I fear this would inevitably produce unintended consequences that would shape our society in distopian, sci-fi/horror-flavored ways.
I have no idea how it would actually shake out. Maybe I'm just being anti-intellectual here.