MY ULTIMATE ARGUEMENT

By James

 

 

Okay I thought I'd done my writing for the day, but I just got to thinking and I was having an arguement with my brother about drugs. He doubted me, but just like I did when I was younger and doing a-levels, I crushed my A-level PE teachers, and I will crush anyone else who stands to argue with me, that DRUGS SHOULD BE ALLOWED IN ALL FORMS OF SPORT.

I wrote a paper on this subject. And I only regret my lack of any discernable interest in academic work meaning that I imediately threw it away after it had been graded, but the important thing is that I turned every single person that read it. And now I will turn you.

First of all, the Olympics is gay. Hardly anyone remembers who won anything but that's not the point.

The point is that there is absolutely no reason why drugs should not be allowed at this level of sport.

The arguement that it gives you an unfair advantage is compeltely fucking redundant. There is no such thing as a level playing field in every single one of today's competitive sports. Whoever has the most technologically advanced swim-suit has a major advantage over everyone else. Michael Johnson had an advantage over everyone else by wearing the lightest running spikes in the world and so on and so forth. The fact that no-one uses the exact same equipment (boots, bicycles, rackets, whatever) means that there is no fair contest.

In fact completely the opposite, the only way to make the competition truly fair is to allow drugs in sport. Fact being that somewhere between 40 and 60% of athletes are already taking performance enhancing drugs means that for that other 40% that aren't, they're under a serious fucking disadvantage. And the reason that they don't want to take drugs is that they're too chicken shit to gamble, scared that they're gonna get disqualified. Which is compeltely fair, I wouldn't take drugs, solely because I'd be too scared I'd get caught. But the bottom line is, if we allow drugs, then everyone will have equal opportunities.

Hell, you want to take about the events being fair? The only way this would ever be possible is if you kept everyone together, trained together, ate the same food and competed completely in the NUDE.

Attempts to eliminate drugs from sport have patently failed and always will do. In the late 90s, Dr. Robert Goldman did a survey of past and aspiring Olympic athletes, asking them if they would take an imaginary banned drug if it guaranteed they would not be caught and they could win. 195 said yes and while 3 said no, they were morons and we're probably lying.

Drugs like Erythropoitein and growth hormones make changes within the body, making muscles bigger and such and are slow becoming compeltely undetectable. So why the fuck would you not use them?

So someone has too many ethics to take the drugs, I'm sorry but you're gonna fucking lose. And no-one's gonna say, that's cool, at least you stuck by your guns, because in the corporate world of today all anybody wants is a winner. And the only way to change that is to make drug usage legal.

In fact, allowing drugs would be a much better option on all fronts. At the moment, the topic's a shady subject so not everyone has full knowledge of the repercussions, making it dangerous. If it was completely legal, everyone would have full information and would be able to take safe dosages, well aware of the effects.

My brother says "but drugs are dangerous"... So what? If you're stupid enough to take the drugs you know to be harmful, or that you don't know well enough about to make an intelligent decision, then who the hell do you have to blame but yourself.

To sum up. I'm right. There is no feasible arguement against the legalising of performance enhancing drugs in sport. To want to be better is a natural human impulse and it should be embraced instead of pushed under the rug. Finally, why the hell are these guys in jungle camouflage?