Recent content by kylio_27

I can live with that. What I can't get over is how the universe promotes violence byway of prize fighting entertainment, and is encouraged.

Boxers aren't captured, and conditioned into this career, they choose it. Pokemon are essentially wild animals(regardless of intelligence), so just let them live in the wild. Let them apply their "nature" naturally. Promoting violence for entertainment, whether it is boxing, or pokemon, is...

I didn't say that they only expose them to fighting, but that the whole idea of taking a being's nature and using it to promote further violence is stupid and destructive.

Why not stop capturing pokemon and using them as tools for violent fight promotions? Let them be. It's an animal's nature to fight and be violent in the wild, that doesn't mean we must institutionalize such violence and promote it as entertainment.

So what you're implying is that pokemon are inherently willing to lose their freedom to be prize fighters for these trainers, so fight back to test them and not to defend their freedom? Sounds like we have a pokemon apologist on our hands, folks. But I'll humour you. Even if that were true...

Perhaps those wild pokemon attack because they know the motives of these trainers, which is to capture them. Even then, why capture them? Defend yourself from a pokemon(or animal) all you want, but why the need to take them? Parents don't capture their children. Stupid comparison.

Capturing pokemon is an initiation of force. Promoting pokemon fights is thoughtless and disgusting. If you're gonna' domesticate a pokemon, fine, but most pokemon don't seem like the type to do so(or want to, considering they fight in defence of their freedom).

You brought up stockholm syndrome before. How did the pokemon get to a conditioned state of compliance(for the most part)? They were living free, were captured, and then all of a sudden enjoy fighting? And the true point in all of this, is that pokemon promotes senseless violence. If a...

Still doesn't justify the promotion of capturing these beings against their free will, and promoting violent entertainment with them.

Yup. It's disgusting. Two roosters(or whatever animal) could just refrain from fighting one another, which would suggest they voluntarily decided not to fight. The problem, however, is that the pokemon universe as a whole promotes this violent entertainment, regardless of whether or not it...

That's like saying there is a "real bond" between a manager and his prize fighter. No, the fighter is who freely chooses to fight. A pokemon is forced to, just like animals are forced to fight or entertain us. Animals can't communicate to us intelligently. When you see a rodeo, you can't tell...

What I'm getting at is the hypocritical presentation of values that the Pokemon universe sets.

They defend themselves from capture. Why do you think that is? Maybe because they do NOT want to be captured? After they finish you, they get away.

Pokemon are not people, they're animals. Prize fighters compete voluntarily, whereas pokemon are forced to after being contained in a pokeball through capture. The world of pokemon is one of monopolizing violence for the purpose of entertainment.

And sometimes pokemon escape. Why? Because they did not initially want to be in there.