How should the athletic community regard performance-enhancing drugs?
I would prefer, for the sake of argument, to ignore the negative physical effects of existing drugs. Let us pretend that a steroid sans peanut testicles has been formulated. This question necessarily raises the question of the proper role of sports. It seems that if sports are simply entertainment, then such drugs will do little more than improve that entertainment. If sports provide some kind of forum to prove who is the more dedicated athlete, steroids, which only increase the gain for a certain amount of effort, will not hinder that purpose (if they are readily available); indeed, they would level the playing field by allowing the hard-working but under-endowed athlete to get ahead. At worst, they could provide an economic barrier to professional sports, but a committed player could surely find a sponsor. What do you guys think? If performance-enhancing drugs did not harm their users, should they be accepted, or even embraced, by the sporting community?
