Cull means euthanize. If you breed ball pythons (or any other animal), you will at some point have to face this necessity. Animals may be born with deformities so severe that they cannot survive, or would have extremely poor quality of life even if they did. These animals have to be euthanized.
I think a trainwreck spider that cannot feed on its own is borderline--some people may be willing to nurse it along, while others choose to cull it.
The reason we breeders aren't all freaking out over the possibility of hatching a train wreck spider is because most of us who have been doing this for a few years have had to put down one or more hatchlings ALREADY, for various deformities. Not all hatchlings develop properly. Sometimes, things happen.
The risk with a spider clutch just doesn't seem significantly higher than with any other clutch. The 'train wreck' possibility is just one more thing among many that might go wrong, and it's a pretty low chance. Probably lower than other more typical deformities like eye and jaw malformation, severe kinking, and fusing.
I'm sorry our posts have exceeded your attention span, but I find it highly discourteous to ask a complex question, and then refuse to read complex answers.
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