Well, obviously that wasn't the intent, but it is a pretty humorous observation to look at every once and awhile.

I mean, you go around and collect animals and shove them in balls and don't talk to them ever, except when you're barking orders at them that they're expected to follow obediently. Then, on top of that, you use them to fight other people who do the exact same thing, and when they lose, you mug them.

It's like glorified virtual cockfighting!

=D!!!

It kind of does. x] As Warlin said, I'm sure the creator didn't intend it that way, but it is forcing animals to fight each other, and of course trapping and neglecting them...of course, maybe they are kept in some sort of stasis or something in the pokeball, I dunno. But yeah...you capture them, subdue them, and force them to fight each other. Good God. That is awful, isn't it? x] haha. Wow...I did always think Pokemon seemed a little cruel, but not to this extent. o_o

Shit yeah it does.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2007/ 20070528.jpg

Of course it does! Pokemon have feelings too :)

Poor Pikachu...what if he's claustrophobic?

Pokemon are not animals, they're aliens.

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Hahahahahah, this actually made me LOL. As anyone who's read my arguments knows, I'm super vegan, against animal cruelty, all that. But Pokemon is alsome.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAAA!!

Ohh shit!!!

wow.

of course it doesn't constitute animal cruelty it's not real.....you don't see a little kid outside catching rats so he could teach them how to shoot lightning bolts

OF COURSE NOT! Pokemon are just retarded little furballs. Oh yeah...THEY AREN'T REAL!!!

How does it constitute animal cruelty if they aren't animals?

Pokemon is the thing that makes the world go rounf. Is Yu-Gi-Oh animal cruelty?