Performance-Enhancing Drugs Allowed in Sports
Unfair Playing Field
Not all athletes will take the drugs
How do normal athletes compete with those taking the drugs?
Won't know which athletes are truly the best
More anger exchanged between equally talented athletes
Rewarding dangerous behavior
More rewards = more similar behavior
Unsafe/Dangerous
Could result in adverse health effects for athletes
Some drugs can be addictive thus resulting in use outside of athletic performance.
Devaluing the sport itself
Kids joining sports for the wrong reasons
False sense of hope for young atheltes
Two types of athletes exist, thus a separation in the sports field as a whole.
Divided athletes, less sense of unity
Public Influence
Kids look to their favorite athletes and think doing drugs is ok
Spike in young athletes doping
Doping becomes regular among younger and younger athletes