I'm not sure what you are implying here, but why should we scientific types--or anyone else for that matter--be overly concerned with this?

I don't think anyone who regularly visits the forum gushes with enthusiasm over putting an animal down (even when there are highly valuable reasons for doing so), but, I suppose, some of us are more pragmatic than others.  Whether an animal is donated to museum, plucked up for keeping, fodder for a pet coralsnake, whacked by a lawnmower, or squished by a car, the net effect on the natural population is exactly the same: that animal is effectively *dead*.  (Even in the wild, its prospects aren't much better since albinos usually just end up an easy and obvious meal for something else.)  Starting up a breeding project, while it may sound very thoughtful and caring, would at a minimum double the necessary *deaths*.  So, why should the suggestion to donate it to museum be any more concerning than your own?

Should he ask, I'd be happy to spell out more explicitly some of Michael's choices, along with the pluses and minuses, but donation to museum is certainly ONE valid and valuable choice for the specimen...and one, I believe, he should be able to make on his own without feeling overly guilty about or being negatively judged for.  I don't think anyone was suggesting that this was the only choice or even, perhaps, the best personal choice for Michael to make.  But now that we've thrown our own personal values into the mix, he'll have to weigh more than just the facts.