>>20983111If you're going by that logic, whenever you catch a Pokemon you are to care for it for the rest of your life, so that means if you aren't constantly playing Pokemon, even if you don't use the PC, the Pokemon you've caught are trapped inside the ball, trapped inside the Pokemon cartridge that isn't being used.
You can make Pokemon as demented as you want, but at the end of the day, regardless of the fact that Pokemon possess the ability to frown, they are always happy, whenever Pokemon become unhappy is where objective ethics have been broken.