watching barkley heavy tng episode. so should someone be able to make a holodeck sex slave of your embodiment without your consent?

@confusedcharlot I think it depends entirely on the question “Should someone be able to make a holodeck sex slave”.

So, basically, “Is the holodeck simulation rich enough to make the simulations approximately human-level moral agents”.

Once you've answered that, I don't think modelling the simulation on someone is *ethically* different from making one up wholesale.

Although, as the episode explores, it might be a bad idea.

@confusedcharlot Although, thinking further…

Maybe the “sex slave” bit is misleading, too - people don't like being photographed without their consent, and having a simulacrum made of you is undoubtedly more invasive.

So maybe it's just unethical to make a holodeck embodiment of someone without their explicit consent?

@RAOF it gets more muddy if members starfleet are required to consent to a holobod as part of their service.