I think it's horrid - the John Bobbits of the snake world - hots for people who shouldn't keep hots etc. I really can't think of a good analogy for this - it's nothing at all like having your cat declawed or throwinig a muzzle on your dog. It's stripping away one of the defining characteristics and tools of predation from the snake - would be like "bobbing" the tail off a scorpion. It baffles me.