Recently, we have talked about the morals and ethics of steroids, and how that correlates to cheating or advantage in competitive playing fields. Importantly, it should be considered that, cheating is a completely relative concept, and rules are only delegated by the institutions that set them into motion. Similarly, when we look at the competitiveness of American sport and society, it can be in some way understandable that some people may be tempted to partake in such an enhancement, if society always badgers them to be the best they can be. However, if this enhancement is also a choice, wouldn't we have the free will to decline unnatural enhancement? This also relates to supplements, that are not regulated as steroids are, but are tools at the hands of corporate America, to "enhance" those that feel as if they need it, without going out of legal boundaries.
From this, maybe we should analyze, not the idea of cheating itself, but the hold that institutions have on supplements, as well as steroids in the context of illegality. Why is one enhancement illegal, while another is legal? Similarly, why is one completely at the will of a free market, and another under the pressure of an act, making it illegal. Only three recorded deaths stand on record related to steroid use. Now, this does not mean the drug is not inherently dangerous, but it does mean that propaganda, as well as politics, has blown the idea of steroids out of proportion ("roid" rage etc). As it seems, there is one drug we criminalize, and another we completely allow to be trapped in the deregulated monetary flow, America cherishes.
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