>>44662852>Which is that there is no proof that Pokemon have any rights whatsoever.Agreed, we don't have any proof on this. I personally believe they would have some type of rights if they are to live in a society among people, but again its also dependent on the region and city in question. Ryme City has pokemon that clearly have some form of rights and rules.
>They're "poached" and eaten by humans.This one's always been interesting to me, they've been shying away from people eating Pokemon more and more (even Pokemon eating other Pokemon is getting pushed out). I can't disagree with you though.
All of this though, still grants the same issue all the same: The Pokemon Universe is wildly inconsistant, and with the knowledge that we do have, its really fucked up to captured these possibly highly sapient/sentient creatures in pokeballs. Its like capturing Mewtwo, that's pretty messed up.
