>>45110502>I find it hard to believe they're being exploitedI want to believe this, but... honestly its hard to not imagine they are being exploited when a 10 or 11 year old child (sometimes younger) can leave their home travel to their nearby forest, find and throw a Pokeball at and capture lets say... Slowking (A Pokemon that's basically a human), and now you own this pokemon. I know they work alongside humans in some jobs, but so do animals in real life, the only difference being: We can't just walk outside and capture random animals for ourselves legally. There is at some level, some kind of exploitation in the Pokemon World's structure, even if the world itself doesn't want to admit it.
And yes, I know there are trainers like Ash who befriend his Pokemon first then capture them, but there are also trainers like Goh, who just capture stuff without asking them then make friends with them later in a lab. Its...flawed at its core.
