Was it wrong that Smelly didn't tell the truth to his students whether he had taken steroids or not? In my opinion I don't think that it was wrong that he didn't tell them because if he would have told them that he had taken steroids during a hard time in his life and that helped him. The students then might think that it's okay to take them because they heard their mentor using to help him out then it could be the same with them. If Smelly did tell the truth then his students would want to take them and if their parents found out about it then they would blame it on him and it would cause a greater problem. Smelly would be teaching them that steroids is the easy way out, however it shouldn't be about that, you should work towards meeting your goals. This leads to the question whether taking steroids is cheating or not? In class my classmates mentioned, would drinking monster to get you up and moving count as cheating, or taking a coffee in order to wake you up count as cheating, or the other example that Mr Stewart mentioned if he had a headache and he took Advil would it be considered cheating? No it should not be considered cheating because we are not doing it to win something we are doing it to get rid of something or to ease the pain, however in other cases where professionals athletes take them on the day of their competition to help them out should be considered cheating because there were other athletes that work hard to get where they are today and for somebody to come and snatch that away from them because they took steroids to boost them up is totally unfair.
Jennifer, this is a nice summary of the things we considered in class today. If anyone was absent they would have a nice sense of what was discussed. Did all this discussion make you wonder about anything else? Did any other scenarios come into mind that didn't get discussed with the class as a whole? Did anything more come up in your small table discussion?
ReplyDeleteThis is a very interesting point because there are people who still think steroids are not considering yet its cheating. As you mentioned in your post, pro athletes who use steroids is consider cheating because they are in a competition with athletes have worked hard to get where they are and there are others who take short cuts.
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