Quote Originally Posted by OctagonGecko729 View Post
Which is also why I'm considering purchasing an Axanthic Killer bee....so the minimum would be a pastel 100% het axanthic. Not to mention that I can afford to hang on to the less expensive morphs longer to find them good homes because of the money I'm getting from the more expensive morphs in the clutch. I'm putting out a bunch of cash so I can stay ahead of this problem, thats my way of dealing with it. I personally would never breed animals that could produce normals because I do not want to be stuck in that situation. In the same way that we have several breeder cresteds which would produce offspring that I know I could not sell for more cash then they consume in the 3-6months it takes to get them ready to be shipped. I would be pressed economically to get rid of them and this might lead them to ending up in the hands of folks that wouldn't take care of them.

And of course it is the breeders responsibility to educate buyers but irregardless you can not guarantee that those folks won't just nod their heads go home and stick a BP in a screen cage.

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Well your right, I can't throw statistics at you because no one has done the empirical research. I can however put together a logical framework. Property that is expendable tends to get abused. There are exceptions to the rule but that really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of my proposition. In the same way that in economics, people respond to incentives, does that mean that all people respond to the same incentives? No, but that does not invalidate the logic.
That's assuming that cheap things=expendable. What is expendable or not is a subjective value therefor you cannot determine what is and isn't expendable. All because it "makes sense" it doesn't mean it's "logical" or true. You are basing your "logic" purely on anecdotal experiences as am I. This logical fallacy is called hasty generalization, drawing conclusions on population that isn't large enough. Anyways, some people use price as a measurement of value and some don't. But we can safely assume that people who abuse animals regardless I the price are quite cold hearted