So if I read that correctly, you are stating that IF you leave inbreeding out of it, you will concede that under some circumstances, higher prices of snakes can be easily justified. That was the only initial point I was attempting to make.
Now that that's out of the way, and not to try and detract from the inital thrust of the thread, your side point is "But as long as greed is the driving force for most these breeders and all they see is $$$$$$$$ than the actual quality of the animals produced will be sacrificed." This statment makes a broad assumption: The assumption you are making is that quality is a factor of a breeders desire to make money. This is several logical fallacys rolled into one. Specificly it is a
Hasty Generalization because you are implying that because some breeders are motivated by money, then most breeders are motivated by money. It is
Affirming the consequent because you are stating:
a) some breeders are motivated by money
b) this causes their snakes to be expensive
Ergo) Expensive snakes must come from breeders who are motivated by money.
It is also a
Straw Man because it takes the word "Big Breeders" and assigns it with connotations that are overwhelmingly viewed as "wrong". In this case you are setting up a Big Breeder straw man that is synonomous with Inbreeding and Motivated by money.
It was never my intent to create a situation where you would feel the need to berate my idea of a big breeder. Your statment "I did briefly read through the past posts and realize that we really weren't on the same page" leads me to believe that all you got out of my first post on your initial reading was the word "Big Breeder" and that set you into a tizzy about inbreeding. Then you read the word Gus and must have assumed that because I was not using the word Big Breeder in a negative fashion, then I must be using Gus in a negative fashion.
This was never my intent... Heck, having an arguement about morphs in general or proper practices of breeding them was never my intent. My intent was to refute a seperate logical falacy: Snakes are expensive because people are greedy.
-Your Sick Uncle Morti.
