I'm merely pointing out that rereleasing captive animals can have catastrophic effects on wild populations. Species have gone extinct from introductions of pathogens. If you're keeping chinese firebelly newts, and bringing animals into your house, you have no way of ensuring the pathogens from the Cynops are not being transferred to wild animals, which you are then letting go into the wild. If you accidently introduce Chytrid, ranavirus, iridovirus, or some weird, undiscovered pathogen into the wild, you may very well have killed off every amphibian in the state. It has happened before.
Chytrid fungus has spread to every corner of the globe through people. And it may very well have gotten into the wild in the first place from people dumping African Xenopus frogs into waters after they were done using them for testing. Chytrid has surely been carried throughout Europe by Rana catesbiena. And in most places (for good reason), it is illegal. It is not a matter of me being 'mean'. As a moderator and wildlife biologist working for the federal government, it's my job to ensure legality and ethics are followed on this board and in real life as much as possible.
If you have a problem 'caring about legality', I see your life as a free individual being very short. It's the people who don't 'care about legality' that ruin the hobby for the rest of us. It is the people who don't 'care about legality' that cause imports to be cut off, that cause trading of individuals of an important species to illegal - even when it's the only means to their survival. It's people like don't 'care about legality' that kill off endangered species. "I don't care that it's endangered, I want it", or "I don't care if it's illegal, I'm going to keep my pet alligator in my bathtub and feed it hotdogs", or "I don't care if it's illegal, I'm going to poach hellbenders and sell them off as pets". Maybe you SHOULD care about legality, if not for yourself, then for the benefit of the other individuals on this planet.