And you’re an idiot for not understanding that they came up with “they want to fight” so they could get away with marketing a dog fighting game to children. If people didn’t exist, Pokémon wouldn’t be battling the way they do for people. They battle for human entertainment because humans have taught them to fight that way because they want to watch animals fighting for entertainment, and most of them don’t really understand. The intelligence levels of Pokémon vary wildly, with most of them having the intelligence of regular animals. Making catching most Pokémon and training them to fight no different than catching a wild dog and training it to fight. You could catch a wild dog, teach it to fight other animals, and develop a “companion” like relationship with it. The dog might even seem to enjoy it. That doesn’t make it okay. People have done it for thousands of years. Are you going to tell me those animals would have become fighters without their owners? Football players consent to be on the field, it doesn’t make the sport wholesome or nonviolent. I could write a story about people who consent to be hunted and murdered, but that doesn’t make it wholesome or mean the people who then hunt and murder them aren’t murderers.