While there are proponents and opponents to steroid use, I still maintain that the ideal of sport has primarily shifted to a focus on Individual egoistic tendency due to the lucrative aspect of the sport arena. Basically, what happened to the game?
Should We Accept Steroid Use in Sports? Excerpts.........http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php? storyId=18299098 Those who oppose the use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs say that the athletes who use them are breaking the rules and getting an unfair advantage over others. Others maintain that it is hypocritical for society to encourage consumers to seek drugs to treat all sorts of ailments and conditions but to disdain drug use for sports. Radley Balko, a senior editor and investigative journalist for Reason magazine, says: "So what is this debate really all about? I'd suggest it's about paternalism, and it's about control. We have a full-blown moral panic on our hands here, and it's over a set of substances that, for whatever reason, has attracted the ire of the people who have made it their job to tell us what is and isn't good for us. George Michael, a sportscaster and creator of the program Sports Machine, says: "I am not willing to pay the price for legalizing steroids and performance-enhancing drugs, because I've seen too often what it can do. Where does it go after steroids? Should we be impressed by a person who, thanks to physically enhancing drugs, looks like the incredible hulk and can lift 12,000 pounds? Is a person so built up on steroids actually a human being or simply a physically enhanced being. Is the craving for recognition in the sport world overriding the sport itself? Why can't we just compete as who and what we are without the idolatry of sport figures? Is the athlete on drugs really the better athlete? Are we getting consumed by the zeal for excess. Will excess eventually lead to our end? On Feb 8, 10:23 am, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote: > The ego has a maturation process. As a country, the US is still an > adolescent, but I think, on the verge of adulthood with the looming > transparency in the age of ethics. Michael Phelps is the poster boy > here. One cell phone picture sent round the world changed his life > and view. He is showing us how quickly we will need to grow up. > > On Feb 8, 9:53 am, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Recent controversy over steroid use and the exposure of athletic > > achievement via steroid use brings about another less looked at aspect > > of the sports world. > > It's not about the game anymore, the fun or even the competition but > > sport mentality has shifted to the ego of the individual. Huge > > salaries and fame have redirected the aim, obscured the goal and > > eroded integrity. While the nature of sports is competition, that > > aspect seems to have taken a back seat to the individual ego without > > concern for individual merit. It is no longer about the team but more > > about the player, the MVP. > > I don't think this ego issue is confined to the sports world as we can > > see how huge mega profits have been the main driving force behind the > > corruption in the financial world as well. It is a very rare instance > > when the integrity of humanity cannot be bought. > > Can we reign in the ego and by what process? Are million dollar > > salaries the problem? Is there even an answer? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
