Andrew Sullivan has a point
I should probably start out by saying:
Now, where was I?
Our cultural norm is that drugs that do not harm you are perfectly legit in increasing your enjoyment of life, or enhancing your ability to perform certain tasks. Why, then, are steroids so illegitimate in sports? Yes, they can harm a body, but only if taken in excess and outside a doctor's supervision. Yes, it's unfair when some players use them and others don't. But the answer to that might just as well be universal steroid use as a universal ban. I think trying to stop this is almost certainly futile (the steroid technology almost always out-strips the testing technology) and not obviously virtuous. The notion that there is some "pure" human being out there - unaffected by the technology that now enhances our lives in so many ways - is fiction. Why are sports the only arena in which this fiction is maintained?
I don't really have anything to add other than the fact that I more or less agree (see above). And I guess I could add that I find it rather amusing that McCain is going to try to pass a law about a fucking sport. What are we, a country of fucking 8-year-olds?
