Child Labor? Pokemon is halirious at life!

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    lol i was looking at a comic on deviantart and it showed that pokemon games encourage child labor xDD I cracked up so hard that i sounded like elmo.

    i love how the pokemon professor just sends you off to fill up your pokedex without a choice. Lets see what else is there in the game

    -lol slavery
    -violence
    -free health care xD
    -drugs (pp up, hp up like steroids?) lol

    if you dont find the funny in this its alright, but dont take it serious though


    pokemon for the love :]
     
    GlitchCity said:
    lol i was looking at a comic on deviantart and it showed that pokemon games encourage child labor xDD I cracked up so hard that i sounded like elmo.

    i love how the pokemon professor just sends you off to fill up your pokedex without a choice. Lets see what else is there in the game

    -lol slavery
    -violence
    -free health care xD
    -drugs (pp up, hp up like steroids?) lol

    if you dont find the funny in this its alright, but dont take it serious though


    pokemon for the love :]
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    I don't know where slavery is mentioned in Pokemon, but the human-Pokemon relationship is comparable to having a pet. Do you think pets are slaves?

    Without any form of "violence", there would be no game. 'HEY THERE TRAINER, AIM TO BE THE WORLD CHAMPION THROUGH LENGTHY DEBATE, SINCE BATTLING PROMOTES VIOLENCE'.

    Free health care exists in a socialist system (which the Pokemon world apparently runs on).

    Drugs refer to any chemical that alters the body's functioning. So yes, while the anabolic steroids you were referring to are drugs, so are aspirin and ibuprofen. In fact, Parasect's mushroom is harvested as a DRUG. Does this bother you?
     
    It's based on Japan, people are considered adult at a much younger age.
     
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    I find the concept of Pokeballs far worse than simple slavery. Pokeballs essentially are shown to brainwash pokemon who aren't strong enough to resist. Almost all pokemon will obey you if you're a strong enough trainer, no questions asked. Of course, there are certain things that weaken your control over them, but still.

    Sure, pokemon are "pets". The same way a rooster someone uses in a cockfight is a pet. There are pokemon who are simply pets who don't battle, as seen in the anime, and implied to be simply pets in random house in the games. Sure, some are treated better than others, and they seem to enjoy it, but that could just be a side-effect of their mind being wiped after being encapsulated by a magic sphere.

    i love how the pokemon professor just sends you off to fill up your pokedex without a choice.
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    That seems like more of a trade-off for him allowing you to use one of his pokemon. I think the whole concept of battling is more disturbing. If you look another trainer in the eyes you must battle. No choice, no preparation. "There's no running from a trainer battle!"

    Then, to make matters worse, if you lose, they take half your money, and you black out. It's like some sick kind of gambling.
     
    Myles said:
    It's based on Japan, people are considered adult at a much younger age.
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    Actually, in Japan you're considered an adult at 20, though there is a relatively high degree of personal responsibility instilled in children, e.g. cleaning their own classrooms.

    I'm also a little amused at the catch-someone's-eye-therefore-must-battle thing. I can understand there being a lot of eager trainers looking for fights and challenging you, but not being able to say no, what is that?
     
    Scarf said:
    Actually, in Japan you're considered an adult at 20, though there is a relatively high degree of personal responsibility instilled in children, e.g. cleaning their own classrooms.
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    Well, that's more what I meant. I mean at a much younger age, people are allowed to do things more in Japan than the western world, even if they aren't called adults.
     
    Kenji~ said:
    I find the concept of Pokeballs far worse than simple slavery. Pokeballs essentially are shown to brainwash pokemon who aren't strong enough to resist. Almost all pokemon will obey you if you're a strong enough trainer, no questions asked. Of course, there are certain things that weaken your control over them, but still.
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    I sort of comfort myself on the capturing part by imagining that only pokemon who like to battle will "attack" you. Since pokemon are all implied to be intelligent to a degree maybe some seek out trainers to reach their full potential...? Yeah I dunno. That's a totally thin justification, lol.

    But for me, the game mechanic is just that--a game mechanic. I ignore it and play pretend with my game cartridge--imagining that the pokemon my character finds are encountered in nicer/cooler ways in his "real life".

    I got nothing as to the nature of what it's like to be inside a pokeball, or worse, in the PC. I feel sooooo guilty about pokemon in the PC. I don't actually watch the anime anymore, haven't in years, but wasn't there a gag way back when that all the pokemon Ash kept catching above six were roaming around and causing havoc in Oak's lab? Maybe PCs come with some kind of non-exp-gaining daycare service, like doggy daycare, where pokemon come out to play.

    But for the gameworld to work, it's true that a LOT has to be ignored, lol.
     
    Actually, I think all (most?) Pokemon want to be trained. That's the thing, you aren't a Pokemon Battler, you're a Pokemon Trainer, you're suppose to be training them to their fullest potential. At times things have even said that wild Pokemon are jealous of trained ones.

    Pokemon don't just become 'strong enough to resist' when they are traded. They just don't respect the new trainer because they feel their weak. They didn't go through the whole battle and capture thing to show that you are good, so they use badges to decide how good they think you are.
     
    Kenji~ said:
    I find the concept of Pokeballs far worse than simple slavery. Pokeballs essentially are shown to brainwash pokemon who aren't strong enough to resist. Almost all pokemon will obey you if you're a strong enough trainer, no questions asked. Of course, there are certain things that weaken your control over them, but still.
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    Did you ever come to think if that pokemon has a family? Catching a poor Budew and leaving its parents alone, without a child. Capturing a staravia, not knowing if it has any sibblings who cares about it... Taking a Tentacruel, who was just defending its life, away from its children... Yea, thanks for dropping the "CAREBEAR BOMB" in my mind.
     
    If I were a Pokemon trainer I wouldn't keep my Pokemon in pokeballs. I would let them walk around with me.
    I don't consider myself much of a battler, I catch my Pokemon for breeding purposes. As you can see in my sig, most of my Pokemon are unevolved. That's because they don't see much battle and instead work as my traveling companions.
    I wouldn't be able to watch them fight and hurt each other if Pokemon were real. Dx
     
    PKFL_531 said:
    Did you ever come to think if that pokemon has a family? Catching a poor Budew and leaving its parents alone, without a child. Capturing a staravia, not knowing if it has any sibblings who cares about it... Taking a Tentacruel, who was just defending its life, away from its children... Yea, thanks for dropping the "CAREBEAR BOMB" in my mind.
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    ....this makes me want to set all of my poor Pokémon free...! How sad....
     
    The pokemon world really functions like the animal world. Once the pokemon can take care of itself, he or she goes off and never has any contact with siblings/parents/aunts/uncles/in-laws again.
     
    Man, you guys got me guilt tripping over major ethical issues in the game and series. Let us paint a scenario here:

    Papa Pikachu is sitting at home in his little burrow with his children and their mother when he decides they need food. So Papa Pikachu does the right thing and heads out of the burrow to get some food for the poor children. But along the way he runs into a 11 year old trainer with a bag of Pokeballs, a starter Pokemon, and something to prove. The Pikachu fights for his life to get away but is ultimately captured and trapped virtually to his death.

    Now who is going to tell those poor children why daddy isn't coming home?
     
    The Girl Once named Tracie said:
    The pokemon world really functions like the animal world. Once the pokemon can take care of itself, he or she goes off and never has any contact with siblings/parents/aunts/uncles/in-laws again.
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    What about Pokemon that travel in clusters like Sentret and Feebass? You're still removing them from the Pokemon they've been traveling with their whole lives.
    x[
     
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