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The assumption is that the bits are conscious and experience qualia. If you can demonstrate that systems implemented in silicon have no qualia, then obviously there is no issue no matter how convincing the pleas for mercy of the systems in question.
Well, if you could "demonstrate" that meat-based humans do experience qualia, that would already be a gigantic step forward.
After all, if you're willing to go by self-reporting, any half-competent self-preserving (because evolutionarily selected) upload or AI will claim to have qualia.