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April 26, 2010
The Ethical Implications of Performance Enhancers in Sports: There are no consequences for buying these points. You're not subjected to any sort of "testing" and no flag appears by your name for having bought or used these points. There's no suspension for being "caught" . . . You're not even violating the game itself; it's entirely legal within the construction of the game, deliberately put there by its developers. But it absolutely presents the ethical dilemma of advancing through hard work or taking a shortcut to it.
the ethical dilemma of advancing through hard work or taking a shortcut
But in real life, don't most PEDs just allow you to work or train harder in order to improve? Do PEDs make a pitcher more accurate, or do they allow him to throw in practice longer and more often to improve his accuracy?
posted by graymatters at 05:50 PM on April 26, 2010
Yeah well, not really anymore. I think they basically just make you stronger and quicker. HGH is striaght up a hormone that triggers growth. You could sit and grow.
I liked the article. Even via the virtual world, there is an ethical decision that most of us would fail.
posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 08:40 PM on April 26, 2010
I wonder will Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2011 come with an option to spend the night before a key round in a strip club or at the roulette wheel.
"A local newspaper has contacted your agent claiming to have photographs of you with a hooker in the back of your car. They also claim the hooker is willing to go public. Chose one of the following options: A) Deny everything and tell them to run it if they want but that they can't prove it was you, B) Threaten to sue if they publish the story, C) Pay them off and agree to do a cover shoot for their sister publication."
If someone had EA Sports had a sense of humour (and no interest in producing Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2012, or indeed keeping their job) they'd build in this feature.
I really enjoyed that article. While we're all willing to hand down sanctimonious condemnation to juicers, what many of them have done is been lazy, making it a tad hypocritical of us to criticise them from our sofas.
posted by JJ at 05:30 AM on April 27, 2010
Except for the bizarre conceit that Clemens was a washed up nobody who would have crapped out by the 11th HoF ballot before he started juicing- which is insanity- that was among the most honest PED editorials I've ever read. He even admitted that PEDs just justified his irrational dislke of certain players, which is refreshingly honest!