We have been surveying and contemplating what is and is not
moral in Global for the last week. What decisions go into thinking whether an
idea is moral or immoral for you? Are taking steroids moral or immoral, and
what benefits do they have on people’s health? In my opinion, steroids can be
compared to marijuana. Steroids taken when healthy are immoral, because they
give you unnatural and unfair advantages to athletes who are not taking them.
To me, it is immoral because of the effects on the person’s health overtime as
well as the advantages you receive from taking them (muscle mass). Children
(like Chris) find their childhood heroes in people like Arnold Schwarzenegger and
look up to them and try to be like them. Adult figures in the media taking steroids
promote children to take steroids as well, making steroid usage both unethical
and immoral. However, when steroids are used to treat a disease, it is ok, just
like the use of Marijuana.
I think the difference between marijuana and steroids is that marijuana doesn't really give you unnatural or unfair advantages whether you are healthy or not, other than the feeling of euphoria or the other effects THC and CBD cause to the body, which are shown to be pretty healthy. Marijuana gives the same affects whether its used for medical or recreational use.
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