Comment on If creatures existed that were simultaneously as trainable and as powerful as pokemon, of course they'd be used to resolve every conflict.

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Endmaker@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The way I see it, the vast majority of people with pokemons treat them as house pets (e.g. Poketoon: The Slugma-Powered Home). Only a small percentage actually use them in battles. A way smaller percentage actively abuse pokemons (i.e. the villains)

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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean… don’t we consider dog fighting to be animal abuse?

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    • SalamenceFury@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Pokemon enjoy battling tho. There’s an important part of consent here. It is their way of playing.

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      • torubrx@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Some could argue that the way a dog is raised might make it entertained by fighting as well.

        Not me, though

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      • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well sure, we have to narratively excuse it somehow. Otherwise… take a Pokémon game and replace all the Pokémon with pit bulls and rot weilers &etc and then you have dog fighting simulator.

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That sounds strangely similar to something my neighbor with the Confederate flag out front would say.

    I’m joking, but for real, read it in that context.

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