Is making pokemons fight Animal Cruelty?

I think it is

If it's dangerous even walking on your own in the tall grass, no it isn't. :/

yes... but no... but yes but no.

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Is it ethical to eat intelligent creatures like magikarp and tauros?

It's just as I always said...

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I think there are really two sides to this.

When you care for and nurture your pokemon, and use them as guard animals, then I think it's justified. Like guard dogs would often be used to keep wild animals away, and protect their owners during the middle ages. This actually seems to be needed to even survive in the world of Pokemon, as it's a dangerous place with lots of animals roaming the countryside.

When you on the other hand have pokemon fight against each other in these fighting rings, then it's no different from when you've got dog fights,where people watch two (or more) dogs fight, and bet on which one will win.

You know if pokemon were real the biggest issue would be people trying to have sexual relations with them....damn furries

what do people in Pokemon world even eating :D Berry ??

If pokemon were real they'd be animals, which would make it animal cruelty and highly illegal in most places to arrange pokemon fights of any sort. Luckily they're not real, so making pokemon fight is at worst digital cruelty... which is generally legal.

Maybe they enjoy fighting?

They´re monsters, not animals :p

Not as long as they are only digital.

Yes, it officially is: http://features.peta.org/pokemon-black-and-white-parody/

No - it's stated a bunch of times in diffrent pieces of Pokemon media (but mostly the anime) that Pokemon enjoy getting into scraps and like working with trainers because they like getting stronger. Wild Pokemon approach trainers in the hopes of being captured and trained.

It's like boxing or wrestling for them. Sometimes you do get knocked out ('faint') buti t's worth it.

like any other living being pokemons physically compete against their opponent to affirm themselves as a valid specimen of their species in order to gain from it (territorial control, right to breed, nourishment, to be or not to be food, ...). furthermore there is the evolution factor (theoretically +1 in the food chain position), which is only achieved through fight. they are born for war, like everybody else. pokemon trainers are basically exploiting nature, to the point that from it a small economy was born, with public request, jobs, money incomes, investements, wealth, and such.

anima cruelty? kinda, maybe. depends on your views on that abstract thing called "rights"

No... because they are pokemon not animals well some of them are so it is not animal cruelty, it is POKEMON CRUELTY

Ash is going to be arrested by PETP

No, but it's definitely pixel cruelty. Oh, the horror!

Is killing on GTA murder?

Is just fiction, you can do anything you want in a fictional media and it can be considered fine. In many games you're pretty much a mass murderer but that doesn't imply that you'd actually kill someone IRL.

Yes. Recall one episode (something with "Island" in the name) where the trainers and pokemon were separated and the assorted Pokemon just hung out and had a good time. no fights.

no its great i love making them fight lol!

Keeping them in balls are also animal cruelty.

Only if they were animals .. but it could be another cruelty. ;)