With regards to
the use of performance enhancing drugs in sports, why do we not simply allow
athletes to swallow, inject, or otherwise ingest any substance they want
to? Athletics are one of the oldest
forms of entertainment going back to gladiators fighting to the death in the coliseum. If we think about a similar profession,
acting, these men and women are taking all sorts of diuretics, steroids, and
human growth hormone to either slim down or bulk up for an upcoming movie role
that will earn them millions of dollars.
Is this not just like a minor league athlete juicing so that he or she
can make millions of dollars to provide entertainment for all of us?
In the age of
Sportscenter highlights would it not be better to have longer home-runs, bigger
bone-crushing sacks, and slam dunks from the athlete leaving their feet at the
three point line?
Instead of tip-toing around the idea that the majority of elite athletes are taking PED's why do we not simply own it and put a better more entertaining product on the field?
Ryan Polanco
LT 24
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