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RE: The Sporting Taboo - Is Using Performance Enhancing Drugs Really Cheating?
I have always been of the opinion that it is their body, their choices. Absolutely, it is heartbreaking when you hear of an athlete dying young due to poor past choices with PED's. But, it is their body and their choice to do so. If the sacrifice is made with complete knowledge of side effects, I have a hard time morally regulating the choices that other people make about their own bodies.
Exactly. I wouldn't do it and if it were done legally and above board it could be safer. The sad thing is that it will happen anyway and often using illegally produced and more dangerous drugs. Thanks for such a great answer.
the definition of cheating - may differ in many eyes :)
but I do think so :)
but then the any sport pip using drugs to "cheat" also pay a very high toll in doing so - healthwise
so I guess .. - that makes it somehow already ..even? or maybe actually more of unfair for the person who took drugs with the health risks and consequences involved in doing so
I don't care if a no-one dies of an overdose , but I do care when a tenis player for example is taking PED .
2 players in a tennis match, close skill set, one is taking drugs that make her run like crazy for 3 sets.
I don't think that is in any way fair to the other player, to the spectators that pay the tickets from which they get paid , for the people that watch at home, who pay the TV subscription that pay TV rights to the event that hosts them and again , pay them .
When you are a professional athlete you have a huge responsibility , just as doctors have the Hippocratic oath
The problem is you don't know who is taking drugs and who is not. Also why is it fair that some people have a natural advantage?
What do you mean by natural advantage ? The problem is easily solved. Everyone has to be tested
How do you test for new drugs that are unknown?