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Opposing viewpoints are very good, but even bringing inbreeding into this debate is comparing Apples to Machine Guns.
Lets take the example snake of this thread: A Leucistic boa. Unless somebody's holding out, so far as I know the snake in the picture is the only one of it's kind in the world. Let's say a private breeder buys that snake. He has to pay (just to make up a nice round number) $100,000 to get it because it's the only one in the world.
Let's say that this person breeds this new morph out over several generations and never breeds anything more closely related than first cousins to each other (for the sake of keeping inbreeding out of it for you). Instead of there only being one in the world, now there are... lets say... 5 offspring. How much are those snakes worth? If the breeder ONLY wants to make his inital investment back, they'd be worth $20,000 each now. Is $20,000 still too much money for this snake? Supply and demand. As supply goes up, prices go down.
Keep in mind: Things that are thousands of dollars today will not be thousands of dollars tomorrow. It wasn't all that long ago that it would cost you $20,000 to buy a sunglow. Now everybody's making them and it will cost you more like $2,000 - 3,000.
And you don't need to defend Gus Rentfro to me. I have nothing but respect for him. The reason I chose to use him as an example is, it seems that Everyone has Nothing but respect for Gus Rentfro. Using Gus as an example here is like walking into Church and using Jesus as an example. Everybody (usually) assumes that everybody also likes said person. You don't expect:
Me: I don't think Jesus would like that very much
Somebody else: I happen to know Jesus is a very nice guy.
Huh?
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