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The pokemon world falls apart when you put more than a few seconds of thought into it. Pokemon are either human-level intelligent or dumb beasts, dangerous monsters or domestic housecats, want to be caught by people or miserable in captivity, happy being used for fighting or hate it, all depending on what's convenient for the writers at the time. One of the biggest flaws of pokemon IMO, the contradictory lore that tries to pretend it's not dogfighting.