gooberascendant:rosespirit:gooberascendant:grawly:makomaragi:THINGS THAT ARE NOT OKAYTHINK ABOUT THI
gooberascendant:rosespirit:gooberascendant:grawly:makomaragi:THINGS THAT ARE NOT OKAYTHINK ABOUT THIS BEFORE YOU DECIDE A POKEMON IS WEAK AND KICK IT OFF YOUR TEAM WOWi love neon genesis evangelionI know people get pretty invested in their Pokemon. I know I do. But it’s kind of bullshit to yell at people for playing a video game the way they want to play it.Build the strongest team, use whatever’s cutest, use whichever Pokemon you caught first because you have a bond, build around a theme, do the N thing and catch entirely new Pokemon in every area, whatever. Whether you’re roleplaying and pretending your Pokemon are real creatures or playing it as a game to beat, or anywhere in between, it’s all good.If we were applying real world ethics to Pokemon, as if they were real animals, I think the first thing we’d have to address is how it’s basically dog fighting for kids. But since it’s a game, we don’t need to worry about that if we don’t want to.Sure it’s one thing to use whatever Pokemon you want on your team, it’s a videogame, whatever. But if these were real-life creatures who loved you and got hurt for you and could understand your words, would you really speak to them this way? No trainer would that I’d want to associate with.If they were real, absolutely. But in that case you would be going around enslaving other species (not even animals if we go by the anime, where they have language and are clearly sapient) and having them fight in potentially lethal battles for you while you gamble money on the matches.At that point, pretending that these things are your “friends” and really they want to fight for you is so abusive already that then yelling at them for not being good enough is just another drop in the ocean of fucked up.If these Pokemon were “enslaved” would they be so desolate at such abuse from their trainers? In-universe the fact that most Pokemon are in fact actually friends with their trainers is a BIG FREAKING DEAL. Even if we’re just staying in the realm of the anime like half of Ash’s Pokemon follow him voluntarily because at the very least they respect him, and are completely willing to fight for him. The morality of Pokemon battles in the first place is not the issue here! It’s that when you are taking care of another creature, even if it’s in the form of culturally-acceptable cage matches, abuse is still abuse! -- source link
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