Carnist logic at work folks. They made the conscious decision to depict every animal in the Pokémon universe as having human-like intelligence so that even meat-eaters can truly empathize with them. Then, instead of having humans just eat vegetables or use the fictional excuse of "oh we have food replicators, so no killing necessary for this delicious tauros flesh!" they instead take cognitive dissonance to the extreme. It's our right to eat animals god damn it! But Pokémon are so cute... Oh what if we just ate their dandruff? It's practically an egg! It's not surprising. This is the same company that brought you the liberal games "Black and White" whose storytelling is considered the finest in the entire franchise. And what is the storytelling? Well, when you think about it, Pokémon battling is kind of bad, so don't think about it! Only super evil VILLAIN teams think about it. Besides, who's to say "maybe we shouldn't enslave pokémon" is a truthful or idealistic statement? Well it doesn't matter; Ghetsis was behind the whole thing! So let's enslave Pokémon. Liberal ideology at work. It's impossible to critique the current system. :very-intelligent:
You got to appreciate the honesty of the early series where they just flat out say we are eating pokemon. I think the most fucked up one was Farfetch which they say tastes good boiled with leak (which the Farfetch convieniently carrys around with him), I think people overhunting them is used to explain their rarity.
Carnist logic at work folks. They made the conscious decision to depict every animal in the Pokémon universe as having human-like intelligence so that even meat-eaters can truly empathize with them. Then, instead of having humans just eat vegetables or use the fictional excuse of "oh we have food replicators, so no killing necessary for this delicious tauros flesh!" they instead take cognitive dissonance to the extreme. It's our right to eat animals god damn it! But Pokémon are so cute... Oh what if we just ate their dandruff? It's practically an egg! It's not surprising. This is the same company that brought you the liberal games "Black and White" whose storytelling is considered the finest in the entire franchise. And what is the storytelling? Well, when you think about it, Pokémon battling is kind of bad, so don't think about it! Only super evil VILLAIN teams think about it. Besides, who's to say "maybe we shouldn't enslave pokémon" is a truthful or idealistic statement? Well it doesn't matter; Ghetsis was behind the whole thing! So let's enslave Pokémon. Liberal ideology at work. It's impossible to critique the current system. :very-intelligent:
You got to appreciate the honesty of the early series where they just flat out say we are eating pokemon. I think the most fucked up one was Farfetch which they say tastes good boiled with leak (which the Farfetch convieniently carrys around with him), I think people overhunting them is used to explain their rarity.
I am going to eat arceus. It's vegan in the same way eating the rich is vegan. I will eat God
Including the metal legs?
If pokemons are so smart why zubats keep running to my flamethrower charizard? Checkmate liberals
I'm not above instituting a hunting season on Zubats to control for overpopulation.