Why Should Steroids Be Allowed In Sports
Sports performers of today’s world are encouraged by not only us, but from their coaches and managers to win at all costs. But then we blame them for taking supplements when the chances of detection are low. We want better performance from our sports heroes, but demonetize the methods used to produce those performances while hiding behind concerns of their health. Concerns for health that are not commensurable with our normal paternalistic attitudes. Quoting Norman Fost, “The number of deaths from play professional football and college football is 50 to 100 times higher than the wildest exaggerations about steroids.” Therefore I believe performance enhancing drugs (steroids) should be accepted in sports.
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There are coaches, psychologists, dietitians, massage therapist, training at high altitude, and skin tight swim suits. Nevertheless, there are numberless possessions used to gain advantages, which is often unfair considering, like drugs, there are only available to some - as said before wealthy athletes rather than cheats - but not to everyone. But in the actual end does it matter if someone raises her hematocrit by sleeping in a hypoxic air tent, more expensive, or by using erythropoietin, less expensive, if the result is the same? No, to several people it doesn't matter in that they both come to the same results, to others it means the world of difference. One is just made by science and supervised while the other has the title of illegal …show more content…
But we look down on one way, a cheaper way to accomplish more and give us better performances due to it having the title of illegal drug. Though teenagers obtain steroids to impress other teenagers, more deaths through the sports themselves, steroids being the cheaper option, and measuring and monitoring the distribution of the steroids we still look down on it seeing as we have associated the words ‘illicit’ and ‘cheating’ to these steroids. We have associated the word ‘drug’ to being illegal when in the end countless drugs are not illegitimate and are used in everyday life. Performance enhancing drugs could just become a part of an athletes normal everyday life. All in all performance enhancing drugs (steroids) should be allowed in
6 experts on steroids took on the issue …show more content…
There are coaches, psychologists, dietitians, massage therapist, training at high altitude, and skin tight swim suits. Nevertheless, there are numberless possessions used to gain advantages, which is often unfair considering, like drugs, there are only available to some - as said before wealthy athletes rather than cheats - but not to everyone. But in the actual end does it matter if someone raises her hematocrit by sleeping in a hypoxic air tent, more expensive, or by using erythropoietin, less expensive, if the result is the same? No, to several people it doesn't matter in that they both come to the same results, to others it means the world of difference. One is just made by science and supervised while the other has the title of illegal …show more content…
But we look down on one way, a cheaper way to accomplish more and give us better performances due to it having the title of illegal drug. Though teenagers obtain steroids to impress other teenagers, more deaths through the sports themselves, steroids being the cheaper option, and measuring and monitoring the distribution of the steroids we still look down on it seeing as we have associated the words ‘illicit’ and ‘cheating’ to these steroids. We have associated the word ‘drug’ to being illegal when in the end countless drugs are not illegitimate and are used in everyday life. Performance enhancing drugs could just become a part of an athletes normal everyday life. All in all performance enhancing drugs (steroids) should be allowed in