>>48582986There's more instances in the pokemon universe that leans more towards that they can consent, the fact that many of them are not only show enough cognitive function to understand their trainers speech in ways far more complex than an animal could, but also the fact that meowth straight up learned english and other human behaviors so that he could get laid. There's tons of instances of pokemon showing human-level cognitive function, even outside of legendaries which are likely above human cognitive function. Anyone who tries to argue otherwise is just as an anon mentioned earlier, trying to cope their way out of the fact that they like furfag games.
