I do not care if the pokemon themselves wish to fight. Their desire for combat was never of interest or relevance.
[No video, and his voice remains as steady and pleasant as before. That the girl didn't understand his questions is no surprise, she looks young.]
I had questioned not the desire of the pokemon to fight, but the illegality of simply picking up a knife and retaliating; of the forced reliance on the pokemon and only the pokemon for both offense and defense of one's person. If one possesses a bodyguard, this does not preclude self-defense techniques being learned personally. Scorning personal ability thus would be foolish at best.
That it seems only sharp weapons or projectiles are illegal, and everything else merely frowned upon, I wonder further at the arbitrary silliness of such laws.
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Date: 2013-07-23 05:57 am (UTC)[No video, and his voice remains as steady and pleasant as before. That the girl didn't understand his questions is no surprise, she looks young.]
I had questioned not the desire of the pokemon to fight, but the illegality of simply picking up a knife and retaliating; of the forced reliance on the pokemon and only the pokemon for both offense and defense of one's person. If one possesses a bodyguard, this does not preclude self-defense techniques being learned personally. Scorning personal ability thus would be foolish at best.
That it seems only sharp weapons or projectiles are illegal, and everything else merely frowned upon, I wonder further at the arbitrary silliness of such laws.