I have officially been bitten by the snake bug!

[Apiratenamedjohn]

You give the impression you're enforcing your own personal ideals on how a species should thrive as a new standard. It could be argued your human assigning is the desire to go over and beyond for your own sense of achievement and superiority while the snake doesn't actually need as much as you are projecting.

By your augment, I'm assigning my human needs over my snake by not choosing a bioactive enclosure for my current or future snakes. I could very well create an artificial 7x4x4 cage and you could still sneer at the fact it's not natural or wild enough.

Also going by your argument, that means I have no right to keep my cats indoors and I should let them free roam outside unsupervised. I should allow them to hunt wild animals without regard how it's effecting wildlife because hey, I'm placing their needs over my needs of being a responsible owner.

Before you say cats and snakes are two different beings, then let me point out human prisoners and snakes are also different.

Yes I think snakes benefit from enrichment without a doubt, (I myself prefer larger cages) but how are you personally measuring that? Enrichment can be achieved without requiring a 6ft plus bioative haven or palace for a snake to thrive and be happy. You can keep your snakes however you want of course, but implying other ways of keeping are inferior comes across as pretentious.

I dont know where you are finding this sense of superiority or achievement. Mayhaps you are confusing it with your own inferiority?
I havent sneered at anyone.
That argument is rediculous as cats are domesticated and domesticated cats are terrible for the environment.
Also i did not compare snakes to prisoners. I used that to illustrate that the 10-20 minutes of handling a few days a week does nothing for small cage quarters.

Did i say that? Did i say a palace or bioactive haven was necessary? No, in fact what i said was, the biggest and closest to the natural environment as you can afford should be your concern if you are getting a pet and not breeding stock.
You do realize this includes giving them hides, waterdishes, correct temps and humidities, correct day/night periods, etc etc? I adressed this. I also mentioned breeder racks and did not talk down or negatively about them.
I havent talked down to or negatively to anyone. It seems you are inferring an awful lot.