#besides which pet populations are *not good genetic reservoirs*
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please be proud of me, I ollied out of an Internet Discussion before it became an Internet Argument
#it was a very stupid argument#about hybridization in herps#like people say “hybrids are bad” like there's a moral imperative attached to that without understanding the underlying conservation issues#hybrids are sometimes bad! in certain very specific scenarios! that we can assess and address!#otherwise they're literally morally neutral#you can be pissed you can't get a pure-locality leopard gecko in the hobby trade#that's a fair personal preference to have#but framing it as “hybrids are bad they're destroying the natural species” is conflating two issues entirely#the major threat of the pet trade to species in the wild is NOT hybridization#it's excessive wild-catching#it's habitat loss#it's climate change#besides which pet populations are *not good genetic reservoirs*#the super-pure leopard gecko you think is some sort of moral imperative would be useless to actual conservationists#unless its lineage its health and its condition has been meticulously tracked#which knowing hobby breeders? it would not be#there are people out there breeding genetic reservoir quality herps#but they're not in the fucking pet trade#this guy is grumpy that he can't find a species-pure herp *in the pet trade* and is trying to turn it into some sort of moral imperative#by co-opting conservation arguments and muddying the water#either because he's dumb or because he needs ammo#and you know what? on balance I do not care which it is#I have Disengaged and I Will Not#but I am passionate about conservation and so I will write an essay in the tags I guess
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