You hunt either because you have no other way of putting food on the table, or because you enjoy being cruel for fun. You just have to be willing to admit that about yourself.

You do realize the point of catching them all is for the benefit of mankind, right?

“ARGH GO AWAY WEEDLES I NEED TO GET OUT OF THIS FRIGGIN FOREST STOP ATTACKING ME.” *starter KOs it in one hit, but it’s not dead and started the fight anyway so that Weedle deserved it* “Okay got rid of that OMG A PIKACHU @_@” *starter gently scratches at it ’till it’s about to faint* *trainer tosses Poke Balls* “GRRR STOP MISSING POKEBALLS” *trainer catches Pikachu* “YES NOW TO HEAL IT” *goes to the nearest Pokemon Center to heal it so it’s not going to faint in 2 seconds* “OK BUG CATCHER I CHALLENGE YOU TO A POKEMON BATTLE” “Okay, here we go! ^^” *trainer beats bug catcher* “Good game!” *hands over some money as a prize* *entire game later* “YAY I BEAT THE ELITE FOUR” *starter is all like “yay!”*

Uh, that broke down pretty quick, but basically Pokemon battling is a SPORT. They do this for FUN. Like wrestling. Pokemon appear to have really high stamina and humanlike intelligence for the most part, anyway. So obviously they had to agree to this.

“Animal Abuse: Forcing animals to fight each other just to get money from random strangers.”

th pokemon have a choice.

“Selfishness: “Gotta Catch ‘Em All”?”

so is collecting baseball cards selfish? probably more selfish than collecting imaginary creatures in a video game.

“Violence: See Animal Abuse”

see response to animal abuse

“Oh, crap! There’s some worm! Go fry the crap out of it, mutated electric rat, or else I’ll beat you to a pulp! Alright! Now I’m gonna chuck some metal ball at it while it’s almost dead, and carry it around all day! Then make it fight until it dies! And if it kills other people’s mutated creatures, I’ll get money! Definitely no violence, selfishness and animal abuse THERE!”

Your attempt to point out others failing was a fail. Congratulations.

Either know the whole story BEFORE posting,or don’t post at all,noobs.

Several of the “bad guys” also have Crobat in the games, which evolves from Golbat when its love for its trainer is immense.

The games teach nothing about Pokemon being partners, the point is to catch them for scientific advances. Your point about “always becoming a choice” doesn’t really make any sense.

The Pokemon anime is in no way a reliable way to judge the series. It has trashed the continuity and ruined the fundamental plot points, along with totally overthrowing the entire concept of the games, and throwing in 150% more padding than plot advancement.

Team rocket is the bad guys. So it is showing that selfishness kleads to a bad end(blasting off Again!)

Violence is not the same as animal abuse.

The pokeman have a choice.

What next? you going to complain about abuse in the Coyote and roadrunner show?

It shows respect, patients, kindness. Look at who the bad guys are and how they treat the pokeman compared to the good guys.

It’s it taught the pokeman are partners, and when someone catches one it always becomes a choice for the pokeman.

And it’s “selfish” because the point is catching all Pokemon to help a friendly professor collect data meant to help people have a better understanding of them?

And it’s violent because they fight each other just like about every freaking video game on the market?

…Really?

Flick Fail!

My pokemon bring all the nerds to the yard,
And their like, You wanna trade cards?
Damn right, I wanna trade cards.
I’ll trade you this…but not my charizard….

Gotta catch um all!

It’s “TAMAGOCHI”, not ‘Tamigotchi’, ‘tamagatchi’ or anything else. Seriously, if you’re unsure about spelling in ANY situation, it takes approx. 10-20 SECONDS to look it up. I’m not even a native speaker, and I know that!

“Meaning of “Tamagotchi”

According to Bandai the name is a portmanteau combining the Japanese word “たまご” (tamago) which means “egg”, and the English word “watch” (as in timepiece)[2]. Consequently, the name is romanized as “Tamagotch” without the “i” in Japan.

My home state of Wisconsin would be overrun with starving dying deer if they didn’t have the deer hunt. It has nothing to do with low-self esteem. It serves a valuable service and most do use the meat for food or donate it to the hungry and poor. I’d go on but Ted Nugent says it better than most when it comes to this subject anyway.