If you refuse to accept the canon that Pokémon are non-sapient animals you are defending actual slavery in the Pokémon universe purely to satiate your mental illness desire to fuck wild animals. If Pokémon are as intelligent as human beings and have achieved sapience it is an enormous contradiction that actual Pygmy hunter gatherers in Africa are more advanced socially and technologically than literally every species of Pokémon. Pokémon canonically slaughter and eat other species of Pokémon, with canon predator/prey relationships confirmed in the Pokédex, and slowpoke tails being confirmed to be a delicacy in Gold/Silver/Crystal. Masuda himself said they’re “just getting by”. The implications of sapient Pokémon, which you push purely to justify your masturbation sessions, are far more disturbing than if Pokémon are just animals with super powers.