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Pockets said:
It's one thing to legalize the substance, another to incentivize it.
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I agree. That's why I am for sensible legalization, much like alchohol for lower substances like marijuana and sports supplements, to voluntary prescription use, through a doctor, after a screen and health warnings are covered for items like opium and steroids.
My point is, responsible people should not be affected by law, only criminals who abuse the rights of others.
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Kame said:
The misuse of anything can be dangerous. Can steroids not be a danger to your health, even if you're using them correctly?
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Yes, but so can matches, and bic lighters, steak knives and swimming pools.
My point is that if a person can get it, if they want it, only after going to their doctor and being fully informed on the effects, health related issues, impairment effects and their bodies current condition, it should be the individuals choice.
If they are on something, and break a law, they can be held accountable for breaking that law. Why make the law affect the drugs, and not the individuals who abuse their power of choice, and the right we entrust them with as individuals?
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Kame said:
Is that a fact or speculation?
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It's an observation, that goes all the way back to the start of the international olympics.
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Kame said:
Sure, I have nothing against people who choose to modify their own bodies with steroids, but I think it should be illegal if they then demean sports.
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What is demeaning to sports, and where is it defined?
Wouldn't it be more demeaning to sports to disallow atheletes the opprotunity to pioneer into new areas, as sports has always been about?
Why can't seperation between pure and non-pure simply be used to protect well-established sports records?
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Kame said:
Nor does arsenic always kill a person, when ingested. Steroids have a large chance of sacrificing the user's health, which I believe to be antithetical to the very idea of "sports".
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I understand your position, I just don't see where it has been defined that way except in the use of drugs in sports, and I think its exclusivity points directly to the flawed logic involved in the reasoning.
I think the same logic should be applied to all sports "aides", without descrimination based on the inanimate object, but instead, on the actions done that defy law by the individuals.
Blaming a substance for actions, is a misplacement of responsibility.