I have an albino het male ball and I am getting my female het this year and in the next couple of years I plan on getting a number of other morphs or het (pastel, pieds, ghosts, axanthincs...you know how it goes) and I would like to successfully hatch all these rad snakes.



So anyway, last night my girlfriend and I are talking and she mentions how she thinks it is wrong to selectively breed any animal for certain traits. She feels like messing with nature is not right. I agree with her to a point. I don't think anyone should mess around with nature. But I don't feel like breeding for naturally occuring morphs is wrong. They are all ball pythons and it doesnt change anything in the snake besides its color. A ball python is a ball python regardless of morph right?



If it were changing the species I would understand. Has anyone ever had a similar disagreement with anyone and been able to come up with a good defense/explanation for this argument? I don't want to try and prove her wrong, I just want to be able to better explain my point of view at least to a point where she might be able to understand a little bit more than I can explain to her.



Thanks for your input!

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