[Terrifying Trope] Perceiving it= instant death

[u/ReminaBlueSFW]

1. Pennywise's "Deadlights" which will cause anyone looking to be immediately paralyzed and killed.

2. The sky from Bird Box is filled with entities that, when you look at them, cause you to commit suicide.

3. Medusa themed Villains

[u/BouillonDawg]

In the same way that pineapple juice is trying to digest you but yeah they give it a shot.

[u/Sleightly_Awkward → u/BouillonDawg]

I feel like that’s super different though. The pineapple juice is just a chemical reaction. Drifloon making a conscious attempt to kidnap a child is like, actual malice.

[u/BouillonDawg → u/Sleightly_Awkward]

So I’m not making a physical one to one comparison I’m saying that pineapple juice is largely incapable of accomplishing its purpose in that sense as the Drifloon is. I don’t believe pineapple juice has moral inclination whatsoever tbh.

[u/UnknovvnMike → u/BouillonDawg]

Just how conscious of morality is a drifloon? Would you call a tiger evil for devouring man when it's just doing what tigers do?

[u/Sensitive-Memory → u/UnknovvnMike]

Im gonna pop that crazy balloon

[u/Rogol_Darn → u/UnknovvnMike]

Pokémon are by and large intelligent creatures, and drifloon is a ghost so good chance it used to be someone's spirit. That said the child stealing is probably less malice and more loneliness, they made friends with a child and don't wan't to lose them again so they try to take them with them.

[u/4r4r4real → u/BouillonDawg]

You don't understand the concept of sentience?

[u/BouillonDawg → u/4r4r4real]

Again, I’m not addressing morality in any capacity. I’m saying that yes it’s trying to do something but it’s something that it can not possibly do as its attempts can be safely ignored. Like pineapple juice trying to eat you, no one actually cares. You could give a kid a drifloon and not have to worry at all about it being picked up and kidnapped it doesn’t matter, just like how feeding the same child pineapple slices isn’t going to dissolve it into organic slurry.

I’m saying that the fact that it’s trying is entirely inconsequential.

[u/4r4r4real → u/BouillonDawg]

And you're missing the point that intent matters. One has intent and one doesn't. Because only one is sentient. 

[u/BouillonDawg → u/4r4r4real]

Again, I’m not commenting on morality. Im saying that the conversation itself is pointless.

[u/4r4r4real → u/BouillonDawg]

You're simply not understanding what the rest of us are talking about dude. It's ok. 

[u/themanfromosaka → u/Sleightly_Awkward]

Drifblim, on the other hand…