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I agree, he may not have liked what was done to him, but he doesn't seem to hate himself (and why should he? He had no responsibility for what happened). And for better or worse, he has been the 'new' Bashir for far longer than he ever was his original self - that version has been gone since his 7th birthday. The attributes he gained since that procedure have become an integral part of his identity too. Any law seeking to revert that would be on ethically shaky ground for those reasons in my view- even if I would agree with a ban on genetic engineering.
 
Essentially, it's hard to experience immersion in the events around you when you know you can pull out of it anytime and it won't change anything.

Perhaps we'll see the "Corporal Prime Directive" next in Trek - prohibiting travel between people and manipulating their bodies directly. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Wisp

That would be a Corporeal Prime Directive; a Corporal Prime Directive would presumably regard corporal punishment or its prohibition.

My mistake. No taking over other people who have bodies and making them do what you want them to in the past, future, or even the present. Though what "present" means at that point to the non-linear, who knows?

Thoughts on the Corporeal Prime Directive (how to deal with Corporeals as a non-corporeal (whether one is fully non-corporeal, or able to go back and forth between corporeal and not)?
 
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