Why not mention/debate it? There are plenty of people on either side of exporting wild caught ball pythons from Africa. You will have some people saying it provides new blood to the captive population and we are still discovering new morphs. And then you have people on the other side of the fence who think we have a good captive population and there is no need to import any wild caught specimens. Then you have the people that just don't care either way.
I think the people on this forum are always up for a good debate. You shouldn't tell them "the fact it's still happening should not be debated."
For hybrids, I think as long as the pairing, parents, resulting offspring, etc are well documented and sold/rehomed responsibly, I see no problem with it. I may even produce a few hybrids myself in a few years. Now, people will argue, "It's not natural." or "We shouldn't play god." but people play god on a daily basis. A god put trees in a certain area for a certain reason and we plow them down to put in a mall. A god puts two snakes on two different continents but who's to say in millions of years those two continents would collide and those species would naturally hybridize. We are creating these hybrids for personal collections, not for releasing into the wild.
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