What is it about people who claim to love something like succulents, or reptiles, or parrots, yet then knowingly pay for illegally sourced wild specimens, payin

What is it about people who claim to love something like succulents, or reptiles, or parrots, yet then knowingly pay for illegally sourced wild specimens, paying a premium if they're endangered or rare, just so that they can say they have a rare one? Obviously, they don't love them at all, they're just weirdly obsessed. My country has issues with people capturing and smuggling endangered species, just so some collector in Asia or Europe can have a bird/lizard that other people don't have. It's messed up.