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Ignatius M. Meen
May 26, 2011

Hello yes I heard there was a lovely trainwreck here and...

What if you could make humans literally incapable of hatred with no other effects?

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Ignatius M. Meen
May 26, 2011

Hello yes I heard there was a lovely trainwreck here and...

Guavanaut posted:

Rule by psychopaths who still have a dispassionate lust for power, but without the hatred needed for the occasional revolution against them.

People kill each other all the time without needing to hate the other person though...?

Ignatius M. Meen
May 26, 2011

Hello yes I heard there was a lovely trainwreck here and...

foobardog posted:

Human beings would never have evolved in a world with Pokémon. The predators we had to deal with are powerful, but group tactics and crazy endurance won out (As well a willingness to eat a lot of different things).

There is plenty of evidence that at least some Pokémon if not all of them have human level intelligence.

Imagine a pikachu Thunder Shocking a human body -- forever.

To be fair, I've heard some part of the series implies that some of the legendary Pokémon are essentially gods that created the world so while human beings might not have been capable of technically 'evolving' the way we think of it, in that universe the gods saw fit for them to exist anyway and even entrap their descendants should any one of them prove tenacious and lucky enough. I don't think I ever heard of there being any Pokémon worship in the games or anime series though.

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