Someone comes along and suggests turning off this person's emulation on the grounds that no one will know the difference, and we can use the hardware for something else. This seems wrong. Which means this computational process is valuable entirely for its own sake, independent of its effect on the world.

I expect it only feels wrong because if you were in an introverted state, you would prefer the power not be turned off on you (so you wish for others to have the same courtesy).