Domestic dogs may be the same species, but what does that really mean? It means no one has scientifically classified a chihuahua any different from a great dane. That argument doesn't hold any water since a species is a manmade concept. I don't see how you can say chihuahuas and great danes are more similar than ball pythons and blood pythons except by Latin name. Insular forms of many different boas are still classified as Boa c. imperator-the same down to subspecies level. Yet somehow I doubt you'd be fine with crossbreeding all of them, and for good reason. Taxonomy is constantly changing, so there's no sense in saying anything is right or wrong based on what's considered a species at the moment.

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