Some of you have taken to comparing the act of Pokemon
battles, as seen in the multimedia success Pokemon, to cockfighting, a practice
mostly illegal in the U.S.A. ,
yet still practiced in it's most darling territory, where I happen to live. In fact, those comparisons are bordering on "not funny anymore".
I am not gonna guess what you think of cockfighting,
although I'm guessing a good amount of
you think it's somewhere from "that's not nice" to "that's a
barbaric ritual that doesn't belong in the 21rst century". I'm not gonna
try to defend cockfighting, but I am going to become an unlicensed lawyer for
Pokemon battling.
See, most of you have not considered that Sinnoh, Johto, Kanto and the rest have
different social histories from us, and most of those come from the fact that
they have creatures that can shoot fire and water and thunder scattered all
over the land.
I mean, think about it: We tamed the bull and put him to
work fields, we tamed the dogs and used them to protect our homes: how would we
have reacted if we had somehow tamed a
horse that can shoot fire or a psychic duck? Every element of our society would
be completely different.
There's no guns in this world for the most part, because who
needs guns when you can summon an invincible
penguin that can waterbend? Knocking a
guys Beedrill makes him be at your mercy. I bet war is not fought with hosts
and swords, either.
And we would have had to do this long before we had the
slightest concept of human rights, as
living in the world of Pokemon seems to be unreasonably dangerous. Maybe you've
never been to a rural area and have no idea how common "tall grass"
is. But in this world, walking into it
means certain death.
Like a hellish fusion of Australia and the African Bush, ,
walking into an untamed area means that
every animal within hearing distance wants to kill you. But whereas in Africa it might be a gagoon biter or in Australia it
might be dingoes, Animals that LOOK dangerous, here even squirrels, sparrows
and caterpillars want kill you and eat
your remains.
You where walking in the woods, minding your own business on
your way to your nephew's birthday party. You didn't walk in looking for
trouble, but you found it: You are face
to face with a bear, and you need to preserve your own life. But if instead of
having a rifle, that even at close range might not be enough for you not to
become bear chow, what if you could draw YOUR OWN BEAR, and have it fight
instead? Would you consider the option? Could that even be more humane?
What if you KNEW that every 1 to 11 steps a bear will
without any doubt charge you. Would THAT be reason enough to have a defense bear of your own? Would you
need six bears to survive a relatively short
trip unscathed?
What's worse is that Pokemon are no innocent victim's of
man. No. Pokemon are actually proven to have conscious thought on a level where
they understand humans a good amount of
the time. Sometimes they even work together to screw over wayward kids, even when it's animals you don't think that's cooperate. Don't you see? They aren't attacking because it's their natural
instinct and they feel threatened or hungry. They know what they are doing: mobbing
the shit out of some dumb kid because HOW THE HELL IS HE GONNA STOP THEM?
Cockfighting? When was the last time a rooster killed a child by shooting thunder
at it and laughed? If Pokemon are as
smart or more than people, then they too should be judged by their actions
equally, and be found guilty of
being...well...monsters!
This world doesn't have Pokemon fight because it's fun. They
have Pokemon fight because it's the only way to survive in this world.
Pokemon subjugation by humans is the
alternative to human subjugation by Pokemon. It's as essential for human
civilization as the wheel or vaccines or
electricity. Did they elevate it to a spectator sports? Well, did we not do so with martial arts?
Most of us are lucky
to never having had to fight of a wild animal for sheer survival of self or
kin. Even Grisly Man , who considered
being eaten by bears an honor, tried to fight back when the most obvious possible thing that could happen to him and
those dumb enough to hang with him
happened. In the Pokemon world there is only certainty that death follows those
that don't have Pokemon. And most of us don't know what that's like to be
passing judgment.
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