>>48398806Yes, your only points comes from a text with no other context except being part of a book about "folk tales". If anything this hurts your argument because it's not something that is shown in the universe's contemporary setting.
To mirror back into the real world there is a symbolic ritual, as recorded Giraldus Cambrensis, among Irish king of their king having sex with a white horse who is than slaughtered, thrown in a bath which the king uses and than consumed by those around the king. A very bizarre ritual to say the least. Yet not something no contemporary Irish person would even begin to entertain. If we entertain this inane notion of some flavor text with no further context, except coming about a book about literal myths, as meaning something more than that than it reflects poorly on any point you're trying to make. The fact that apparently no one does that anymore is straight to the point.
On a more meta level what I've said does shape how people view this whole inanity. The image of Pokemon as beast as existed since the early days of the franchise, and even PETA has used Pokemon as part of their campaigns. The franchise however never stopped the imagery and context used. Games like New Pokemon Snap clearly reinforce this sort of notion of Pokemon as fantastical beasts, not as aliens as we see them in other media like Star Trek or Mass Effect. I already pointed it out but even in Arceus the "storage system" looks like a place where you store cows, horses and sheep.
One can argue about the anthropomorphic behavior PKMN display but the imagery the use and invoke is a lot more influential hence why these arguments happen in the first place. No one would argue about this over aliens who squarely fall into the notion of xenophilia as you people want to invoke it, like the previously mentioned Mass Effect aliens because they're portrayed as people with advanced civilization, not as a fantastical beast that acts like your pet dog.
