I can't stand when people refer to what we do as being a mad scientist, genetic engineering, playing god, or anything similar.
These are all very negative terms and for starters I think they are completely and totally inaccurate in regards to what we do. All we are doing is taking the ingredients that nature has provided us (in this case different ball python pattern and color traits) and selectively breeding them with one another.
We aren't cloning anything. We aren't using microscopes and needles to change anyting. We aren't doing anything scientific to alter the naturally occuring trates that we are working with.
Now I am right on this, and anyone who disagrees is wrong.So let the debate begin.