Performance Enhancing Drugs | Ban Athletes Who Don’t Use Steroids

Sidney Gendin is the author of More Steroids, Please, and is a retired professor of philosophy from Eastern Michigan University.

Source: Governments and sports federations are wrong for continuing to ban the use of performance-enhancing drugs like steroids. Steroids are less hazardous to human health than smoking or drinking, and society has traditionally permitted people to engage in risky activities, such as mountain climbing, when the danger posed only affects the individual involved. In addition, ineffective and more costly dietary supplements, which...

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