Whiny, whine, whinge! Performance enhancing drugs are ruining professional sports, killing people and messing up our children. Really? You think those obsessive personalities wouldn't find something else to mess up their bodies even more if they didn't have steroids? On a positive note, there's the healthy part of the obsession to be healthy, or at least look super-freakishly healthy. We already have chemicals in our food and air, hormones in our eggs and meat, mercury in our fish, who knows what in diet sodas and energy drinks, so a few injections of stuff that's already in our bodies is going to cause a problem? I don't see what the fuss is about.
I used to be outraged at the NFL, NBA and MLB because it's not fair that teams from other towns can bulk up when my representatives are playing by the rules, but the more I think about it, some of them only get to play 2 or 3 years before they tear an ACL or get too many concussions or die from a freak heart problem, so why can't we let them get bigger and hit harder? They're in a rough business anyway. It's kind of like not letting soldiers smoke. Most of them are not going to die from lung cancer unless it's caused by some enemy agent released on the battlefield. I really don't understand people complaining about doping in "sports" like the Tour de France. First of all, they're bicyclists so they're probably jerks anyway and secondly, wouldn't you rather see the limits of human endurance and physical capacity even if it's enhanced by daily blood transfusions, performance enhancing drugs and mind altering robot implants? Who knew anything about the Tour before Lance? I'll tell you who; elite cyclist snobs.
Don't we all watch to see them crash and burn anyway?
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