@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.
consent, simulation
@confusedcharlot Yeah, but plenty of authors have been blind to the super-skeevy implications of their worldbuilding 😁