AlwaysCurious wrote:
monty wrote:
...Do you all think we should go to some standard where you just get to eat food?... For the most part, yes. Here's the problem with supplements, injections, and every other form of grey-area enhancement--it will ALWAYS trickle down to kids and young adults who have yet to develop a fully-rational brain in their head. Instead of an MD in the Nike lab administering a 49.9 ml injection of a known substance every 6:01 hours (to skirt the wada rules), we'll have 17-year olds who want to make the DIII track team shooting up in their car with a substance they got from their friend who bought it off the internet.
As a society we have a responsibility to look out for those who can't make good decisions for themselves (especially kids). We also live in a world where 16-year olds can buy
anything off the internet easier than I can change the clock on my microwave. And some number of kids will try to mimic anything that they see pro's do.
Which means we need to model the behavior we want children/young adults to follow--because there's certainly little forcing/shaming/punishing/threatening of kids that will be effective. Remember, the behavior in the report isn't coming from some 2nd tier pro in a backwater country. It's coming from one of the highest paid coaches in the world who is funded by one of the globe's largest apparel manufacturers, working with an Olympian and world record holder. The behavior they are all modeling is exactly the opposite of what is moral and responsible.
Everything you said above is EXACTLY why the NFL won't legalize juicing up and making the NFL a pharam free for all openly (whereas, privately every owner will do everything in their power to sell more tickets, which means winning, which means more juiced up players). The only thing stopping the NFL from publicly going with a steroid free for all, is exactly what you have said. They "feel" they will sell more tickets with the status quo and not overtly telling 15 year old John Doe high school player to shoot up with his parents dreaming of Johnny being the next Tom Brady stopping at no expense to support the required pharma assist.
Let's not fool ourselves, it's not just 16 year old kids doing it on their own. If parents see that pros do it legally they will spare no expense to live out their own failed athletic dreams by shooting up their kid with every designer drug that the pros are using