Wow, guess I was wrong about being the only one who's learned PUA material.
The way I see it, there's the people like Steve who go into personal development because they care about the world, and the people like David DeAngelo, who turn to personal development to increase their success in life (especially concerning women and dating).
Although some PUA's are pretty immoral and cause pickup and seduction to be associated with a lot of negative stuff... Most of the more mainstream ones like David D, Carlos Xuma, and Style seem to be pretty good people - but all it takes is a couple bad apples for the whole game to get negative connotations around it.
If anybody has heard of David D's '77 Laws' program, I would recommend it. He's really maturing as a person and is starting to become a respectable guy. A lot of the concepts are very inner game and personal development related.
I also found it ironic that there's a "Steve P" in the PUA community - the shamanistic / hypnosis guy...