Ethics

Is making tuxemon fight analogous to dog-fighting or cock-fighting, or bear-baiting or fox-hunting? Is making them breed a kind of factory farming? Is capturing tuxemon slavery?

This ties in with the origin of tuxemon, with the idea that tuxemon are synthetic, digital or mindless being proposed as a way of escaping these ethical quandaries.

Possibilities

• Tuxemon battle as sport - just like humans do boxing or taekwondo (tamashihoshi)
• As elemental spirits, tuxemon grow and develop by interacting with all the elements of the universe. Battle is a particularly effective way of doing this (Sanglorian)
• Tuxemon are mindless automatons, perhaps because they are exclusively digital

External resources

• https://thinkprogress.org/the-real-problem-with-pok%C3%A9mon-and-animal-rights-f02e345024d7/
• http://forums.pokemontabletop.com/topic/9803938/1/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/1w6r7r/meta_the_ethics_of_pokemon/
• https://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/02/things-get-weird-when-you-look-at-pokemon-as-an-allegory-for-slavery/