>>39699595I can sum up my thought process a lot more succinctly, it's like this
>Is the pokemon inspired by an animal that is, or can move bipedally?yes? The it's fine and doesn't creep me out. See: Mice pokemon, sandshrew, dinosaurs
>is the pokemon a dog/cat walking around like a humanYes? Then it's creepy and I don't like it.
>Does it also have thumbs?Yes? Kill it with fire it's an abomination and I hate it.
The specific way humans are bipedal IS incredibly unique. The anatomy of our legs isn't found anywhere else - most other animals don't have heels that touch the floor, for example. The way most bipedal pokemon are designed isn't vaguely human, it IS human. When you see the silhouette its more human than it is anything else. and it's not just about whether it's bipedal, it's about whether all of the other traits naturally mesh with it. Would I be comfortable letting it sleep on the end of my bed, and giving it a pat on the head? Would I feel like I was committing an ethics violation by keeping this animal as a pet?
>And what are pangolins anon?Actually not anteaters. They're as far removed from actual anteaters as you can get, they're a perfect example of convergent evolution. Colloquially it's an anteater because it eats ants, sure, but biologically speaking they have a really unique evolutionary lineage and that's why it's such a big deal that they're so critically endangered.
>It takes serious mental gymnastics to look at something standing on two feet and go THAT'S HUMAN! I never said that though, I said it makes it *too close* to human to be comfortable for me. Anything in the order primates irl is also too close to human for me, hence excluding ape/monkey pokemon as well.
>Yes I do and apparently so do you as that is exactly the point I was making about what you see not being what others do.Well, yeah I get that. But most people are not in evobio so they don't know what they're looking at anyway.
