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Tuesday, March 29, 2005
 
Steroids

Why don't we let athletes who play in private organizations like the NFL use steroids? As long as everyone has access to the same technology, shouldn't it be allowed? This has nothing to do with college games or high school games. This is professional sports in a private league.

"This is not even medicine. This is better athletes through chemistry," charges the puritan. Who is he to say those are mutually exclusive? We manipulate genes to live longer. We bombard our bodies with vitamins and supplements and painkillers and memory enhancers and memory erasers and tobacco and marijuana and alcohol and anything else that you can get in the Ghetto before you jet to the Bronx, and that's all ok. So why not more advanced vitamins? Why not stronger medicines? Why not allow grown-ups to make their own choices about how they want to train their own bodies so that they can excel in their own jobs which they perform for private organizations? Where's the compelling government interest? Let 'em do what they want. They already do anyway.