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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

• indigo0086 3y ago
  Aside from the normal risks of injury there is the simple fact that many athletes would take the risk. I think it's morbid but top level athletes probably already deal with things that would make the normie sports fan queazy. They'd do it happily for the status and adrenaline
• andybak 3y ago
  Yep but that's true of many sports. In fact most sports at high levels involve a heightened risk of life-changing injury. It's a difference of degree rather than type. Not that that invalidates your criticism but it does require it to be formulated in a more nuanced way.
  • mpsprd 3y ago
    I agree with you, the higher the level, the more athletes will destroy their bodies in the process. My critism is about actively encouraging said destruction via promotion of stimulants. It's already bad as it is.
  • Sesse__ 3y ago
    The biggest problem isn't that the highest-level athletes would waste away their bodies (that's a big problem, but not the biggest); it is that below them, there will be thousands if not millions of second- and third-level athletes doing the same. With much less control. Imagine if every kid out there that wanted to be the next Ronaldo or Neymar (and could afford it) started taking steroids and EPO. That's a huge cost, and what did we gain exactly? A slightly lower number on some clock?
• MrPatan 3y ago
  The participants ignore the health of the participants quite a bit already in many a sport. Let them do what they want, I say.
• 542458 3y ago
  The argument that I’ve heard against this is that pro athlete training is already really dangerous - yet athletes are valuable enough that their handlers have some incentive to be reasonably cautious to not push things too far most of the time. Of course, we also know of many many athletes that have been permanently injured during training, so it’s hard for me to know how true the above is.
  • Closi 3y ago
    If something is already really dangerous, why add performance enhancing drugs into the mix and make it even more dangerous?
• rmbyrro 3y ago
  recipe for death, ultimately
• MenhirMike 3y ago
  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_wrestling_deaths 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.
  • climb_stealth 3y ago
    Oh man, this is such a sobering read. There are a lot of suicides in those tables :/
• hrdwdmrbl 3y ago
  They do address it here: https://enhanced.org/science-is-real/ https://enhanced.org/science-is-real/ Whether you like or accept their treatment of the subject is up to you