I posted this in a forum in Fauna in response to some high and mighty people going down on interbreeding... any thoughts?

I am in no way, shape of form defending people hybridising captive animals... I see no point to it, and I think it takes something away from the animal in its natural form. That being said, i don't feel it is my place to tell them not to because of some form of delusion that it is upon us to keep these animals in their original form to repopulate the world (like some people honestly believe).
I think as far as natural hybridization, if it happens, and we know it does, it happens for a reason. Sometimes, the results of this hybridisation are better suited to an environment than the original parents. I think this is really just a form of evolution in action. Humans are just a small blip in the grand scheme of things... we may not even have all that much longer left, so what we do, say, or think is right, wrong or whatever is not relevant at all. People are against hybrids, and that is their own opinion, and luckilly, we live in a free society, so we are allowed to disagree on things. But people look down on someone that breeds a Ball and a blood python, or a Gargoyle, and a Crested... but they have no problem going out and spending money on a Cockapoo or a Schnoodle, or a labradoodle... OK, so they are all dogs... how did they get so many breeds? Well, of course we caught them in the wild... so we must protect the wild population of poodles... where are they from? Or how about the many different types of cats? Or go even deeper.... Humans... we all come from different places... European, Asians, Native Americans, Native Alaskans, Africans... the list goes on and on... well, it is common place to see interracial relationships and marriages, and society for the most part agrees that it is the right of the people involved to have a marriage or a relationship and have children (except for back woods racists). How is this relevant? Well, Europeans evolved to be how they are based on where they live... Africans evolved to how they are based on where they live... Asians, Native Americans... we ALL evolved to how we are based on where we live... How is that different from Balls and Bloods, or Kingsnakes (most hybridized reptile there is). How is hybridisation between any animal that is capable of interbreeding wrong in that light? Human beings are technically all hybrids. Unless you are 100% English, both parents being English. or 100% Spanish, or 100% Native American, or 100% black, we are hybrids. Some people will say that I am wrong, we are all the same, and blah, blah, blah... fact of the matter is, we are the way we are because of how and where our ancestors settled, and out people evolved... Then we got onto boats or planes, or walked and met new people... many people very different than us... then we had children... not like one parent or the other, but a mixture of the two... How is this not hybridisation in a form? You can not take two totally different species and cross them... it can't and won't happen without a test tube and science. You can however cross two species that have a common ancestor that have CHANGED based on where they live, and their environment. You can cross a ball and blood, and a retic and a burm, and a mule and a white-tail, and a grizzly and a Polar bear... you can probably cross many other things if you wanted to, and they do interbreed in nature, we just don't always SEE it firsthand until someone shoots one or photographs it... so to say it doesn't happen often, are you basing that one personal experience, or because you just KNOW it doesn't happen often? What are you basing that assumption on? As a matter of fact, in the UK right now, they are having a problem with imported Sitka deer breeding with the native red-deer, and the interbreed is better suited to the environment than actually both, so the population is exploding, and soon they are worried there will be no pure red deer left. So people didn't put them together on purpose, they just facilitated it happening be the release of a deer, be it on purpose or accidental. the only difference between Humans and the deer or bear or geckos or pythons or boas, or anything else on this planet we live on that we say is inappropriate to cross is the fact that we are capable to jumping from land mass to land mass and mix bloodlines and races, and whatnot... If a snake was capable of flying to another location and was able to interbreed, you would see nothing wrong with it because it happened naturally, but because we are the facilitators of the process it is wrong, and the person doing it is a demon, and should be ashamed of themself.... personally, i feel that the person crossing the poodle with a mastiff or a lab, or a bulldog is more of a threat than the person making bateaters or bloodballs.....How about mules... I don't hear anyone complaining about Mules and how its wrong...Interbreeding and hybridisation, and evolution of a species or species as a group is a natural occurrence, and it has been going on since long before we came along and decided we had the moral obligation to decide what is wrong and what is right. We aren't talking about 6000 years the bible tells us Earth has been here, or intelligent design, or anything like that. We are talking reality here.... life is meant to find a way no matter the circumstances... it happens, and it is a powerful force...

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