>>33880434it was never about pokemon
The pararels to real life pets are clear, there are pets that are being abused by humans and kept prisoner just because they cannot turn on their masters.
Pokeballs are the same, they actually mind control pokemon into submission, it has been stated many times that pokemon lose power when they are captured, for examples the legendaries
BW/2 does not answer this question because that isn't the point, the point is to raise the question to the audience
That is art