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Yeah, I don't really see the point of this thread. This clearly isn't meant for debate; the OP is more venting about some personal vendetta than actually looking for clarification and opinions of dissent aren't even really looked at. I don't disagree - I wouldn't cut my kid and I'm not cut...
I'd like to think that these things are different.
Swagger was banned because it makes the game based on luck, whereas Geomancy would be good on practically anything that learned it unless it was named Ledian or something because of how amazing the effect is (not that it's banned anymore...
I also fail to see how someone using shitty arguments is a bad thing to call out. Social responsibility? Easily refuted. A better argument would be that people don't especially care about their fellow man, so naturally they won't care about animal life either - or, hell, perhaps even go with the...
Who said I was a vegetarian?
I don't even think things were better back then. I think the changes that have occurred recently in allowing more freedom of people to be different override the negative aspects, however, it would be foolish to say there were no negative aspects in this transition.
How come Westerners (mostly Americans) say disrespectful stuff like "No one likes ___ Pokemon"?
Have they done their statistical research that absolutely no one likes that Pokemon?
No. Rather, people in the west tend to be much more liberally insulting, especially these days, as the social...