Psychotic form over function

Most people confuse the form of a thing with the quality of a thing. They design for style and then wonder why performance suffers. They monomanically focus on one characteristic until the whole teetering mess falls over in a banjaxed heap.

For more than a century, roses were bred for the bloom alone. Why? Because that is how the judging was done. The exhibitor would cut the rose and put it in a vase on a table for the judges. Since the bloom was all the judges could see, that is all the hybridizers would hybridize for. Over time, the hybrids became weak-rooted cripples that had to be grafted onto rootstock to grow properly. They became disease-prone and had to be constantly sprayed to stop blackspot and a whole host of diseases, leaving former rose fields toxic.

Finally, some sense has prevailed, and some hybridizers focus on the overall plant.

This kind of behavior becomes downright psychotic in the breeding of animals. This is so unbelievably cruel.
Why do over 80 per cent of Bulldog births happen by caesarian section? http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/peter_wedderburn/blog/2009/04/06/why_do_over_80_per_cent_of_bulldog_births_happen_by_caesarian_section