So you can get a better idea of what Im about

[SS5_Majin_Bebi]

Can you spell...

Plagiarism??

[downwithpants]

Well written.
Though you should be more explicit in defining morality. There are many different grounds of morality. You should explain which grounds you are adapting in your argument. They seem to be:
Statement A: "Actions which result in the general happiness of conscious, rational minds are moral."

Aristotle described a person's character by the grounds of morality she adapts, her desires, and her willpower to stand by her grounds of morality.
A virtuous person has the correct morals (in this case our morals are Statement A), is able to identify the correct decision to take in preserving those morals, desires to take the moral decision, and takes the moral decision.
A continent person has the correct morals, identifies the correct decision, takes the moral decision, but desires to take the immoral decision.
An incontinent person has the correct morals, identifies the correct decision, but desires the immoral decision and takes the immoral decision, though aware that it is immoral.
A vicious person lacks the correct morals, fails to identify the correct decision, desires the immoral decision, and takes the immoral decision.

These categorizations can be used to evaluate characters of the Matrix. However doing so requires understanding what the correct morals (statement A) are. As you have touched on, we cannot know whether consciousness extends to artificial programs, or even other humans. We can only infer that they are conscious based on the assumption that behavior is a causal effect of consciousness, and because other people and other programs behave as we do, they must be conscious. You also explained why rationality is also a bit messy, but I think it is safe to say that everyone in the Matrix is rational, even if they are deluded, because they are logically reasoning with the data they perceive and are acting in concordance to their decisions.