Recent content by curious222

Well, this idea of pokemon is terribly depressing. If part of the nature of pokemon were that they inherently feel inferior to humans and accept their fate. That would be like a slave being born accepting that they are a slave and that is just part of their nature. Pokemon cant be like this...

Wow lots of interesting stuff. But from reading the comments it seems most people would say Pokemon are worse off than animals in the real world. In regards to the poor examples for animals being treated poorly, what was wrong with them? Those were all terrible things, I don't know what a less...

Animals are treated worse than Pokemon because.... 1) Animals are bred to be slaughtered, used for food. 2) Animals are cruelly tortured by people ( no evidence of this in the Pokemon world) 3) Many species of animals are hunted for sport. Some species have even been driven to...

Intelligence is key, I think we'd all agree that even the dumbest Pokemon is smarter than virtually any animal, but some Pokemon are smarter than humans (Alakazam). Pokemon may not be able to speak to humans, but they are able to fully understand humans, based on their ability to take orders in...

I really like your interpretation of the pokeball, i guess a leash idea makes sense, except i just wanna ask how you imagine this "leash". As a psychic imprint or something along those lines? Secondly, on the question of moving real world animals around, I think in the case of horses, Cats etc...

You make a lot of great points Psy, the biggest thing I would say in response to some of your comments is that your saying because the pokemon are often willing to fight, or obey their trainers, it is not so bad, also if the pokemon doesn't want to listen, they dont actually have to. In...

Hi everybody, I'm a philosophy major and a huge fan of the pokemon franchise. In an ethics class I brought up the question of whether the treatment of pokemon was ethical. Its a small class so the teacher entertained the question and a division arose in class between people who thought pokemon...