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.
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)
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
I mean… don’t we consider dog fighting to be animal abuse?
SalamenceFury@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Pokemon enjoy battling tho. There’s an important part of consent here. It is their way of playing.
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
SalamenceFury@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
The lore pretty much says that Pokémon jump at humans cause they want to challenge them and fight whoever they have.
Turns out they’re all little crashouts.
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.
Jomega@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Pokémon are as smart as humans though. Sometimes smarter. It’s not really the same thing, is it?
Seleni@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean, yes, but it is also a well-established bit of the lore. It even shows it in the first anime when Charizard is so unimpressed by Ash that he usually refuses to fight at all, and the one time he does fight (because the other Pokémon was strong enough to interest him) he just does his own thing and doesn’t listen to anything Ash says.
Because, when you think about it, what are you really going to do against a giant fire-breathing lizard that says ‘no’ when you ask him to fight? Especially if you’re a ten-year-old kid.