--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Steroids are used throughout the medical profession. They > >>obviously aren't all bad, > > Did you read my post completely? Just wondering...
Yes. Which part are you thinking I missed? If it was the political analogy, I didn't respond to it because I couldn't quite figure out where you were headed and how it was relevant... In the political scenario, you've got broken off dialogue leading to hostility. In the T&F scenario, you've got existing hostility and lack of dialogue that could be improved by removing the dividing factor, i.e. drugs. > >>so if health were the only reason behind drug > >>rules, why not regulate steroid protocols that could > >>make healthier athletes? > > Well - because someone could gain an advantage through cheating? Ah, so you agree after all that it's not all about the athletes' health? That brings us right back to moral issues and defining what is right and wrong (in the example I was giving, regulated drug protocols would obviously be deemed right or they wouldn't exist)... > What, you think that everyone will stop at some "medically allowed > dosage" if the street is telling them that more than that will make > them better? Probably not, but if it were shown to be safe, would we be any worse off than we are now? Just throwing ideas out there. Some may work, some may not, but we've already got a system that's as close to a disaster as possible. Hard not to improve on it with wholesale changes. Dan ===== http://AbleDesign.com - Web Design & Custom Programming http://Run-Down.com - 10,000 Running Links, Fantasy T&F ------------------------------------------------------------ @ o Dan Kaplan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] <|\/ <^- ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) _/ \ \/\ (503)370-9969 phone/fax / / __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
