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What makes Pokemon different from humans?

When a human has a desire, they collect Pokemon and go to fulfill it. That is how this world works.

When a Pokemon has a desire, what do they do?

Why must the free lives of Pokemon be the cost of a human's wish to act?

Who decided that Pokemon were possessions to be bought and sold and bartered with?

All beings think and feel and wish.

Please consider this.

[[ooc: Replies will often be short because he's trying to obscure his typing style and avoid any clues as to his identity. Threadjacking is fine!]]

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[friendyousohard]

You are welcome. Just remember. What you see when you look at a Pokemon and trainer is not an exploitation. It is not slavery. It is symbiosis. We need humans.

And have no doubt on this. Humans need us.

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[grapecape]

I apologize for the brevity of my responses. I don't want to attract attention from people who might recognize my style of speech.

Pokemon training itself does not distress me at all. That kind of symbiosis is something which should exist in my world but does not, for many petty reasons, and I am glad that both humans and Pokemon here have the chance to intermingle and depend on each other.

But it terrifies me to think that I could vanish at any moment, and my Pokemon, who are young and unique and who I care about very much, could end up in the hands of someone who could easily leave them in the PC once they no longer need their skills.

Or, they could be abducted by Team Rocket for no reason but a show of power, and be made to attack others like in the assault on Goldenrod.

The way this world is allows those things to happen. Even otherwise innocuous people, with no direct intentions of wrongdoing, can deny their Pokemon the future they desire if they forget that they are any more than tools.

It's irrational of me to air these worries the way I did, and cowardly of me to hide behind an anonymous face, but I need to know firsthand what the rest of Johto thinks, so that I can make some kind of plan. If I promise them that I will be the trainer that they need, I will be lying. If I act without knowing what I'm doing, I'm putting them in danger.

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I'm sorry. That outburst was entirely inappropriate.

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[friendyousohard]

[There's a long pause before Starswirl's next reply.]

It would seem I have misjudged you, and I should apologize for that. I took you to be some sort of activist against the practice of training, blind to the reality of things and the nature of this world. Clearly, this is not the case.

However, as you yourself have noted, your true problems seem to stem from a disagreement with the natural order of our world. Yes, abusive trainers and groups like Team Rocket exist... but that cannot be altered through some global movement. It can only be responded to on an individual basis.