If it's ok to...

[Matt K]

He's ineffectively and unnecessarily trying to be confrontational. The consensus between hobbyists is clearly that it sucks that Spiders wobble, but that even in most severe cases it doesn't prevent them from leading a "normal Ball-Python-life." No one wants wobble to exist, so don't be absurd. While it's clearly not ideal, wobble does not seem to prevent them from feeding, growing, and breeding normally, and with the reality that those three things are the ultimate goals of all living things, it doesn't seem cruel to breed Spiders. The thing with reptiles is--stress kills. If the wobble was stressful for the animal, the prolonged stress would lead to premature death, as simple as that. There are no indicators that Spiders are stressed more than any other Ball, and in a vast majority of cases they have no trouble breeding, feeding, or growing and developing properly; please don't make out people who breed Spiders as this ethically crippled monsters. If you want to have a discussion on the subject, there are better, less snarky ways to go about it, and quite frankly your facetious approach isn't appreciated. On the other hand, if you were asking this question from a straight forward and honest place, I would say that although it's impossible to line breed for more or less wobbles, if it were theoretically possible, it would be unethical to do so. The more genetically divergent a snake is, disregarding phenotypical divergence involved with pattern and color, the greater the chance the animal will not be able to carry out it's biological goals stress-free. It would thus be unethical to line-breed for what could develop into a potentially harmful genetic trait. I would like to reiterate though that with the wobble trait, such line breeding is impossible, so at best your question/argument is hypothetical.

Cheers,
-Matt