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by papichulo4
864 days ago
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Nobody is saying let's ditch the Olympics and everybody should take roids. Behind the scenes, so many athletes are already enhancing themselves during the off season in so many sports, this is an attempt to "legalize it." I'd like to know where the line on enhanced will be drawn - will they allow for robots to compete? Also, this sounds good: > The Enhanced Games have been designed so they can be hosted at a Division One university campus, its website said, avoiding the need to build new stadiums and push cities into debt. It will also mean athletes can be paid fairly... It's like a more sustainable, equitable Olympics that's happens to have a vice. But will people care enough to watch? The market will decide. |
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The thing that troubles me is that enforcing a certain degree of plausible deniability also limits the harm that these athletes cause themselves with the drugs.
When you throw the plausible deniability away like this, you open the gates to reckless drug abuse for the sake of competition, which could be an order of magnitude more lethal than everybody doping in secret moderation.
I'd be a lot more comfortable with it in principle if they were allowing drug use, but enforcing sane limits and disqualifying athletes who were clearly being reckless and causing themselves serious harm.