>>48286349>because of not quite reaching human sapience.>It doesn't question its world, it lacks the same brand of self-awareness humans have.Counter Point: Team Rocket's Meowth, Team Rocket's Mewtwo, Calyrex, and Slowking all exist. We've seen Pokémon question the world, show explicit human level self-awareness, show personhood, and in Mewtwo's case it even built its own castle out of high tech. You can't say a Pokemon isn't capable of reaching human level sapience as we've seen it happen multiple times by now.
