Quote Originally Posted by rabernet View Post
This debate will go on and on as long as spiders and their crosses exist.

All spiders wobble. All spider crosses wobble from degrees of barely noticealbe (those owners often swear that theirs do not wobble, though they do display head tilts in many photos those same owners post) to full train wrecks. It cannot be bred out, and the severity of wobble passed on is as random as the high vs. low white randomness in pieds.
Why is this trait particular to spiders? Is it an unforeseen and unwelcome result of breeding for the morph?

I realize that some people see snakes as pets, and some as profit. I'm sure some see them as both things. But is it ever ethically justifiable to allow a species sub-type to develop neurologic deficiencies that are a direct result of breeding for profit (or vanity?)

I'm not making a moral judgment here. But if the mutations caused by selective breeding for morphological variants are causing functional disorders, shouldn't we be asking ourselves whether we are justified in continuing to perpetuate any variant that begins to develop those disorders?

Or are they, after all, just reptiles?