Question: * How, if at all, can we determine when it’s acceptable to enhance your performance?
Breaking Down Key Terms: * 1st Term: “Performance” * Performance- The process, manner, and quality of functioning * The performance being analyzed in this discussion is in three different areas: Athletic, Academic, and Social.
* 2nd Term: “Enhance” * Enhance-to intensify or increase in quality, value, and power.
* 3rd Term: “Performance Enhancer” * Historically a performance enhancer is basically a synonym for drugs, most of the time steroids. However, if you take the first two definitions and apply them to create a new one, a performance enhancer is really anything that increases of intensifies the quality of functioning. * The major problem with this though is that almost anything an athlete or academic does could be considered performance enhancing. * Athletes- a specific diet, a certain coach, certain equipment, and a specific sleep schedule can all be factors that enhance or hurt your performance. * Academic- The simple fact of you having more money than someone else in order to hire a top-notch tutor could be a form of performance enhancing. Also, drinking coffee, and eating certain food to stimulate the brain is all considered performance enhancing? * The main problem is where to draw the line, and what is considered ethically immoral.
* 4th Term: “Acceptable” * Acceptable-judged to be in conformity with approved