>>47793882I do want to mention there are some screwy aspects of the Pokemon world and their ethics: For example while Pokeballs aren't mind control or obedience devices, nothing as far as we know tells us that these devices **require** the Pokemon's consent to be successfully captured. You can beat the pokemon up to 1 hit point and paralyze it then throw a ball at it, and because its so weak and tired it can't fight back the containment effects it gets captured, taken away from its home, and put somewhere else in the world. Nothing about that's consensual and is pretty messed up. The other part I'd argue is messed up is the PC system in that people can forcefully place Pokemon in those for days, weeks, months, years and they just stay in there alone in their ball with no repercussion to the trainer/human who left them in there. In both cases, what the Pokemon wants, may not be accounted for or even thought about.
I wish Team Plasma had the balls to tackle the actual unethical parts of Pokemon and Human partnerships or Pokemon World rather than screaming "Pokemon are slaves to their trainers!!!". And in some cases yes, they're right **some** Pokemon are treated like slaves against their will and hate it (Liberate these guys!), but in most cases Pokemon WANT to be with people and are treated with love, care, respect and trust. Its just the core concept of how that "respect" starts in a lot of cases, isn't at all respectable.
