Sports competitions are already rife with athletes on the juice. So it's not like officially authorizing the use of steroids and performance enhancing drugs in competitions would significantly change anything for the worst. One can practice a sport without choosing to enter a competition. The health benefits don't require a medal.
> You’d basically be telling athletes that they’d need to subject their bodies to the side effects of steroids if they wanted to remain competitive in their sport.
Adults are responsible for the consequences of their own decisions. No one is forcing athletes to partake in competitions. Being competitive for the Olympics already pretty much require one to begin intensive training in childhood, if not earlier.
It is very difficult for one to become a professional musician and make a comfortable living from playing music if one doesn't dedicate most of their waking hours to practice and graduate from Juilliard.
It is very difficult for one to become an investment banker if one doesn't come from a target school and has a perfect academic record.
Unless you are born rich, we all have to sacrifice something, be it time, passions, family, or money.
The entirety of civilization is built on the idea of telling adults what they are allowed to do instead of letting people choose because given all factors because disinterested parties can see that the net result of user freedom would be bad for all involved. I cannot imagine why THIS is the line to be drawn when they benefit to doing so would be so paltry and the cost so clear. Most athletes in most sports aren't using steroids. Post legalization they all would or would be beaten out by someone who is.
> So it's not like officially authorizing the use of steroids and performance enhancing drugs in competitions would significantly change anything for the worst.
Citation needed. Note not a citation that there are many abusers historically but that right now steroid users aren't the minority.
Sports competitions are already rife with athletes on the juice. So it's not like officially authorizing the use of steroids and performance enhancing drugs in competitions would significantly change anything for the worst. One can practice a sport without choosing to enter a competition. The health benefits don't require a medal.
> You’d basically be telling athletes that they’d need to subject their bodies to the side effects of steroids if they wanted to remain competitive in their sport.
Adults are responsible for the consequences of their own decisions. No one is forcing athletes to partake in competitions. Being competitive for the Olympics already pretty much require one to begin intensive training in childhood, if not earlier.
It is very difficult for one to become a professional musician and make a comfortable living from playing music if one doesn't dedicate most of their waking hours to practice and graduate from Juilliard.
It is very difficult for one to become an investment banker if one doesn't come from a target school and has a perfect academic record.
Unless you are born rich, we all have to sacrifice something, be it time, passions, family, or money.