Summary Of We The Public Place The Best Athletes On Pedestals

William Moller's article We, the Public, Place the Best Athletes on Pedestals is showing how easy it is to choose success over rules. It brings in specific examples of when he was in high school he had the option to either get an F on his test or take Ritalin to help him focus and pass the test. The author chose to take the drug along with breaking the rules and law. He compared this to baseball players, how once the players get offered steroids it's obvious they will take them. They all want to be the best and taking these performance enhancing drugs will help them get there. Within the article the fact that we, the people, know that this is going on yet we choose to ignore it until it is made public. Once it is made public we shun that athlete and look to his fellow teammates and how "pure" and "innocent" they are. We know the best athletes are on steroids yet we continue to praise them, put them on a pedestal, so to say. There are a few main points he hits on being that we encourage the athletes to be good but trash if we find out they weren't naturally good, the appeal for performance enhancing drugs is more alluring than you believe, and that we ignore what is painfully obvious for our own
He proves this by talking about his personal experiences that related to the point that he was trying to prove. When using his own experience he connected it to the fact we encourage the athletes to be good but trash if we find out they weren't naturally good by the same way we look at grades; if he spends all night up on Ritalin studying for a history test that's the same as using steroids. The fact the Moller also used quotes within his article made it more believable. When Moller told the story if Bill Clinton and Obama smoking marijuana had given the people reading his article a higher likelihood to believe what was being