This website ignores the big problem with enhancement medication: the health of participants. A future where there is an incentive to juice up athletes as much as possible is a recipe for disaster.
recipe for death, ultimately
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#22This seems hypocritical to me. I kind of get it as a way to level the playing field in one sense (though not, I expect, in many other senses). But their "inclusive language" guide is not internally consistent, and in fact breaks down in the first two paragraphs: It kicks off saying "Being enhanced isn’t a preference or a lifestyle choice." - but it immediately proceeds to contradict that by emphasising choice: "When…
I think they're even more hypocritical in talking about "inclusivity" because allowing PEDs is the same thing as requiring them since no one who abstains will stand a chance against those who use them.
There's no way to be inclusive of those who want to use PEDs and those who would rather not destroy their health with them.
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#23We live in strange times.
Those working to keep chemical cheating away from honest sport competition are the ones called corrupt.
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#24When atheles start collapsing of heart-failure on the track, then what?
They lose the race and people will take that into account and try not to reproduce those results. It would balance out over time. There'd always be more than other sports, but sports doing bad things to their participants isn't unique. People are completely fine with the brain damage caused by sports like (US) football or boxing for example.
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#25Following this trend, Hans Nieman may well create an "Enhanced Chess" organization
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#26This website ignores the big problem with enhancement medication: the health of participants. A future where there is an incentive to juice up athletes as much as possible is a recipe for disaster.
Wikipedia has a list of premature professional wrestlers deaths, look for the ones that died of heart attack before 50: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_premature_professional... - the roid era really did a number, though of course, working through pain and injury with the help of pain killers and other drugs didn't help either.
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#27This website ignores the big problem with enhancement medication: the health of participants. A future where there is an incentive to juice up athletes as much as possible is a recipe for disaster.
They do address it here: https://enhanced.org/science-is-real/
Whether you like or accept their treatment of the subject is up to you
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#28I talked with my semi-pro baseball player friend about this. What if there were no restrictions about steroids?
He told me about his friend’s roommate who used steroids. 99% of the time he was nice, but steroids gave him major temper issues.
So I don’t think the only question is whether we can optimize athletic ability. The question is what the cost of doing that is. The cost not just to athletes but to those around them.
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#29We really don't have a concept of "society" anymore, do we?
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#30We live in strange times. Those working to keep chemical cheating away from honest sport competition are the ones called corrupt.
I wish they would talk about the real corruption of the IPCC and other international sports organizations which basically exist to take bribes from host countries. There's a reason big sporting events often take place in dictatorships.
(or maybe they do, I didn't browse super thoroughly)