That nurse Joy wannabe brings up a good point. In the games, except for HeartGold and SoulSilver, the nurses at the Pokemon centers always say "We hope to see you again" but have no logical reason to want to see you again. They don't make money off of it and don't break away from the script for conversation. Those sadistic whores just like seeing your Pokemon get fucked up.
Yeah making bundles of data fight one another to the point of deletion just doesn't have the impact of making cute animals use fire and electricity on each other.
Actually, poorwill, the ball system collects the data of the living animal and that's how it's stored. It basically turns them into data and stores them inside the balls and PC but they are still living things. Digimon are data first and don't coexist with humans.