>>30524035>you have to feed and care for it>it's an animal-like being with an often animal-like personality>not treating your pets with love and respectThey're not people, they're super-powered animals that are slightly smarter than normal. It's not like I'm talking about locking them in cages or just making it sit around as a couch trophy.
Oh wait, isn't a pokeball basically a cage? And people keep their pokemon inside their houses all the time... like pets. Wow, imagine that.