Quote Originally Posted by Saph View Post
I think you're missing Bashir's most basic motivation here, and it's right in the title of the episode.

Bashir is a doctor. He sees his job as being to save lives. Telling him "you could save these people's lives, but you shouldn't, because there might be unpredictable long-term consequences" is never going to work. If he was that sort of person, he wouldn't have become a doctor in the first place.
Yeah he's Doctor Bashier not Doctor Phlox