My hypothesis is that ethics has to evolve to match technology development for any advanced civilization, to avoid self-destruction.
Animals in factory farms disagree with you.
Maybe the purpose of the simulation is to learn what can go wrong, or what's wrong in order to avoid self-destruction or solve a self-destruction situation in the far future.
I played a lot of Rollercoaster Tycoon and always cleaned up the vomit. I put out the fires in the Sims and made sure the burglar didn’t burgle.