I believe there is no place at all for performance-enhancing drugs in athletics.Anabolic steroids and HGH (human growth hormone) are illegal for a good reason.Because the results of taking drugs such as these two and others have been proven medically to result in a number of negative side effects including cardiovascular problems.Not only are performance-enhancing drugs bad for the body but using them goes against the whole idea of sportsmanship and fair play in athletics.Fans deserve to see great athletes break records and reach milestones through hard work and God given talent not because they've injected anabolic steroids or popped some pills.To me there is a huge difference between the home runs that were hit in the classic days of baseball by Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth as opposed to the home runs that were hit by Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.Ruth and Aaron set home run records using pure talent and were great at hitting naturally as opposed to the others who came into the league as descent hitters but all of a sudden had gained 40-50 pounds with massive arms and legs that they mysteriously developed practically over night.Individuals should mainly avoid using performance-enhancing drugs because it's a fact that there is little to gain and a lot to lose when using them.But at the same time if small amounts of individuals continue to sneak through the system unseen with only an occassional leak of illegal steroid use in Major League Baseball for example then maybe its time for the league to legalize the use of performance-enhancing drugs.Because why should very talented athletes who choose not to "juice" themselves up because they wish to avoid the physical, medical, and most importantly legal difficulties have to suffer by being put into an unfair disadvantage by these "juiced" up, all of a sudden unbelievable athletes who are obviously physically superior to the majority of the athletes in their leagues.At some point professional sports will have to find a way to either prosecute all its' users of performance-enhancing drugs or make the drugs legal because they cannot and should not leave pro athletes on an unlevel playing field.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
ES201 Pre-discussion Performance-enhancing drugs 1/29/09
I believe there is no place at all for performance-enhancing drugs in athletics.Anabolic steroids and HGH (human growth hormone) are illegal for a good reason.Because the results of taking drugs such as these two and others have been proven medically to result in a number of negative side effects including cardiovascular problems.Not only are performance-enhancing drugs bad for the body but using them goes against the whole idea of sportsmanship and fair play in athletics.Fans deserve to see great athletes break records and reach milestones through hard work and God given talent not because they've injected anabolic steroids or popped some pills.To me there is a huge difference between the home runs that were hit in the classic days of baseball by Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth as opposed to the home runs that were hit by Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.Ruth and Aaron set home run records using pure talent and were great at hitting naturally as opposed to the others who came into the league as descent hitters but all of a sudden had gained 40-50 pounds with massive arms and legs that they mysteriously developed practically over night.Individuals should mainly avoid using performance-enhancing drugs because it's a fact that there is little to gain and a lot to lose when using them.But at the same time if small amounts of individuals continue to sneak through the system unseen with only an occassional leak of illegal steroid use in Major League Baseball for example then maybe its time for the league to legalize the use of performance-enhancing drugs.Because why should very talented athletes who choose not to "juice" themselves up because they wish to avoid the physical, medical, and most importantly legal difficulties have to suffer by being put into an unfair disadvantage by these "juiced" up, all of a sudden unbelievable athletes who are obviously physically superior to the majority of the athletes in their leagues.At some point professional sports will have to find a way to either prosecute all its' users of performance-enhancing drugs or make the drugs legal because they cannot and should not leave pro athletes on an unlevel playing field.
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