Athletes should be permitted to use performance enhancing drugs

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Athletes should be permitted to use performance enhancing drugs

I am against the motion for athletes being permitted to use performance enhancing drugs. Higher blood pressure, higher cholesterol levels, higher risk of heart disease, liver damage of, premature growth, testicular cancer, abnormally large amounts of acne, breast development in men; these are all the harmful side effects of using steroids. This makes taking drugs severely dangerous for the user of steroids. Normal exercise is by far better for the human body than taking drugs. So why take drugs, what’s the point of putting dangerous toxins into your body. Normal exercise will develop your physical and mental health in the best way possible.

Children within our world are important to every single one of us. And at their young age they need to be shown right from wrong. We all here know that children have idols. So when they get into sports at their young age they will choose their idol that shall be their icon. Now what happens if their idol is one which takes drugs? Picture this; your child watches their idol on TV.  Let’s say he runs the 100 meter race. So they go and practice running in the back yard over and over again. And then one day they hear their athlete has taken performance enhancing drugs. So one day you get a call from the hospital telling you that your child is seriously ill because they have been taking drugs that they saw their athlete taking drugs. So now you have a serious problem on your hands your child’s health. So now what are we telling children. By allowing athletes to use performance enhancing drugs are we not showing them that using performance enhancing drugs is ok? No it is not alright to use performance enhancing drugs. So let us not show them the wrong things and let’s show them the right things. We have to show our future athletes right from wrong. Show them that performance enhancing drugs is not the answer. The answer is normal exercise or just don’t compete at all. Because doing drugs is committing suicide.

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This brings me to my next point. Using performance enhancing drugs is a serious unfair advantage. It’s an unfair advantage to all others who take part in sports without taking drugs.

Most professional athletes work extremely hard to achieve their goals. They work extremely hard to be in the best shape that they possibly can get into. Without cheating themselves by using drugs. So why should some other athletes be allowed to come and just get to take dangerous drugs just to cheat themselves out of doing all the hard work of training and exercise which is extremely good ...

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