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This is not a question nor is it the answer, its simply a view iv grown to accept.

This may seem like an easy to judge situation, but I assure you its not.
The choice of specie is just a matter of taste.
The way we care about them is a matter of interest.
Dealers import and sale them for economical reasons.
Peoples buy them for educational reasons.

Is there a real benefit between captive produced or wild collected monitors? The real question is who those it benefits? It benefits every one even the keepers but Never the monitors.

With the help of many peoples (notably Daniel bennet) we now understand the economic of African peoples and biology of monitors, we understand none appear threatened. We understand that the pet industry may well offer a smale alternative to the skin trade, how those it compare?

100% skin trade will die (no brainer)
98% pet animals will die
However every single pet monitor will benefit someone somewhere for one hour or one month? Peoples will learn from them, and this gained knowledge will be passed on in some way.

All it take is one spark of interest to tern a kid into a Bennet- Auffenberg-Rates?

To the question I say; get it and do the most of it, you can always go back to girls or cars.

There are a few points there but in a nut shell (and this sounds bad) I look at all the imports that die quickly (or eventually) as some twisted sacrifice. Those die and hopefully along the way an advantage is gained(the some of the parts...not one death but the total effect). I guess its like going to the zoo and seeing to wild caught parrots (very very smart) kept essentially in Hell. A couple parrots with all the stimulation of a jungle and now they are in Levinworth. But maybe over time along with other zoo animals they create a gate and eventually those monies navigate there way to say the real help/protection which is protected habitat. So I guess 98% or whatever the death rate are pawns.