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What about people who cannot still compete despite the injections? Should we allow them to affix a lawnmower engine to their bike and race the Tour de France? T
by hyperbovine 9y ago
What about people who cannot still compete despite the injections? Should we allow them to affix a lawnmower engine to their bike and race the Tour de France? The point you came here attempting to prove inevitably leads to absurdities. Some sort of criterion is needed for sport to remain competitive and interesting. "Make do with what you were born with" seems like the most natural one to me.
- deepnotderp 9y agoNo because such devices are non-biological mechanical aids. PEDs and genetic engineering are purely biological means. I would say that it's fair to ban synthetic oxygen carriers and things like that.
- hyperbovine 9y agoWhich is no more or less arbitrary than saying that PEDs ought to be banned because they are unnatural. So it's a moral issue, not something that can be settled by logic. The question becomes, where do we draw the line? Most people seem to agree that "play the hand you're dealt in life" is acceptable.
- deepnotderp 9y agoNot really, because most PEDs have no continuous effect in the body that's synthetic, they all synthetically induce natural effects. For this reason I say that synthetic oxygen carriers should be banned, since you cannot naturally acquire that.