Context: I sometimes hear the argument that god explicitly told Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit, the same way a parent tells its child not to stick things or touch electrical outlets. So god forcing the two of them to have children and dooming every human ever since is perfectly justified.
It’s another matter if the sims are conscious, feeling individuals.
Heh, well, we are from our own point of view mostly because we define ourselves to be. Scientifically, there is no firm judgement on this and no clear definition of what “conscious” even means.
It’s entirely possible that we perceive ourselves to be “conscious” because we were programmed to do so as part of the simulation.