If we are going to talk about Morality then perhaps we are all horrible people for keeping an animal that is clearly designed to live in the wild, not cages, tubs or tanks for no other reason but human decadence and sense of fulfillment.
If we want to talk logic, snakes in the wild live a real hard life, and there are likely just as many defects born out in the wild that we never see because they die off young and turn to compost real quickly. Every species has defective births.
If its okay to keep a snake in an enclosure rather than let it live in the wild (were they hail from) provided we give it what it needs to survive in captivity, why is it wrong to experimenting with breeding a the cost of a small percentage of defects? Again, defects are likely born into the wild and die off quickly anyway (I have no certain proof of this, but it seems very highly likely, but please correct me if I'm wrong).....
I don't know, I think its only cruel when the purpose of creating a potential defective breed is strictly for the purpose of taking joy in the animals misfortune.
Come to think of it, How many times do breeders get dead eggs, or snakes that die off relatively quickly after hatching that aren't scaleless?? How come that okay, but the second it scaleless we throw our hands in the air?
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