Why is everyone so against allowing steroids in sports?

Question

I just dont get what would be so bad about that. It would not be cheating because everyone would be using them. Everyone always says they are bad for your health but many sports in general are bad for your health (isnt that even part of the attraction). Besides steroid use would be safer becuase it could be regulated and watched over by doctors . Science has proved that drugs are not dangerous if they are taken correctly and responsibly. We could make sure children could not buy them and tell them that like with alchohol their is a difference between adult and child usage. Everyone says it would be artaficial talent but lets face it you or me could not compete against pro athletes simply by taking drugs. They simply enhance athletes already amazing talent.Besides its not like were goinna stop it. So why not allow drugs and get some real entertainment. Whos ready to watch Super Kobe jump over Frankenshaq for a spectacular dunk on the 15 foot rim.

Sports are too dangerous. Take for example football: how is it good for you to run headfirst into a linebacker? Or gymnastics: how is it good for you to spin around on the uneven parrallel bars? Or baseball: how is it good for you to let someone something round and hard at 95 mph near your head. Or cycling how is it good for you to ride up and down multiple mountains for ten days straight often while injured. The examples go on and on boxing, hockey, autoracing... Maybe the way you play sports as an amateur is healthy but most of the sports we watch at the pro level are dangerous. Athletes are working themselves 12 months a year often through injuries. Even sports that do not appear to be inhrently dangerous ie basketball and soccer are at the proffessional level. Go talk to Grant Hill if you dont belive me... If athletes are able to take these risks by playing sports why arent they allowed to take equal or greater risks by taking drugs.

You purists complain that records that steroids would make a mockery of the records of yesteryear.This observation is shortsighted because there's many things athletes didn't have back then – Nautilus equipment, sports medicine, arthroscopic knee surgery, nutritional supplements, scientific training regimens, and so on. Why is technology allowed to shatter records but not drugs?
For those of you who say that would make children more likely to buy them look at todays athletes (many of which are illegally taking roids) Kids can look at them and say they take them so I should to. It would atleats be a somewhat better message if they were legal because it would not be teaching kids to cheat.

You purists complain that records that steroids would make a mockery of the records of yesteryear.This observation is shortsighted because there's many things athletes didn't have back then – Nautilus equipment, sports medicine, arthroscopic knee surgery, nutritional supplements, scientific training regimens, and so on. Why is technology allowed to shatter records but not drugs?

For those of you who say that would make children more likely to buy them look at todays athletes (many of which are illegally taking roids) Kids can look at them and say they take them so I should to. It would atleats be a somewhat better message if they were legal because it would not be teaching kids to cheat.

Answer 1

to tell you the truth your opinion is misguided. Anything that is not natural is dangerous to your body it just has levels of being dangerous and steriods are very dangerous.

Answer 2

i really agree with your question here. i personally do not see why not. sport are all entertainment and personally i think that with steroids they would be all that more entertaining. i wrote an extensive research paper on the safety of steroids and research does indeed show that if steroids were legalized that they would undobutlby be safer. also athleates are currently using many other preformance enhancing items, like electroshock therapy, that are even worse for you then steroids. as far as the whole athleates as role models lets face it. they havent been for a while and steroids are not going to effect this outcome. I am a high school senior and i can tell you that when kids do steroids the last thing that they think about is "hey u knom Barry Bonds used these and hes good so i think i will too" that brings me to my last point, the effects it has on the "intergrity" of the game. now i love the good ol days of baseball and football as much as the next guy but lets face it; the majority of past athleates cannot compete with those of today. now im not sayin that like MJ in his prime couldnt go one on one w/ Lebron and beat him, cuz he deff would, but honsetly do you think that Babe Ruth would be succsessful in todays game. I can assure that he would not be as much as I love the guy and enjoy reading about him. Todays game is just so different. Sports needs to accept the new role that science is playing in profesional sprots and learn to embrace that for the benifit of their fans

Answer 3

You do realise steroids are a major cause of heart failure and general poor health? This stuff kills if used over a period of time. It is common knowledge that ppl who take them live a shorter more disease filled life. Plus is does not create equality on the playing field coz everyone reacts to them differently i.e. some ppl barely respond whereas other ppl respond to a rediculously high level. That is why they arent allowed... health risks + its unfair and its not a great image to portray to the general public and young children (+ over buff ppl look absolutely disgusting.. its like the opp. of severe anorexia... it is a mental and physical problem!!!)

Answer 4

Great arguments. Everyone says steroids are bad for you, but sports are bad for you. ARE YOU KIDDING ME????

If Hank Aaron had been a cheating lowlife, he wouldn't be alive today. Look at the list of former pro wrestlers who have dropped dead from an enlarged heart around age 40, when they looked very fit.

Answer 5

the facts that records have been set by men without sterroids ruins the idea of them being broken by those with an unfair advantage ( due to availability, or just plain good sense) makes the feats of those in the past seem a bit superfluous in an unfair way. what babe ruth did on steak and beer i think totally outweighs what bonds did on roids.

Answer 6

the excitement in sports is watching the ordnary do the extrodinary. the simple thought that a person can do things just by hard work and not take a short cut. think about it if records kept shattering because it was o.k. to take a "shortcut" it would be boring. like barry bonds....

Answer 7

steroids make your nuts shrink to the size of raisins and our sports heroes of the next generation should be propagated by todays stars. if today's stars use steroids the leagues would not be as skilled 25 years from now.

Answer 8

That would be dumb because then you could not compare any the history of sports to now and if a kid sees their favorite player using them then of course their going to want to use them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 9

steroids are illegal for one and dangerous. also sports are some of the highest generating economic institutions in the U.S.-if it's not broke, why fix it?

Answer 10

if kids see their favorite player has taken steroids they will think thats cool and wanna take steroids its like fake muscles though for me that dosent work?!?!