• Hacksaw@lemmy.ca
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    19 hours ago

    I’ve thought about this a lot and I’ve gone back to being against it. A lot of performance enhancing drugs push your cardiovascular system pretty hard. If everyone is trying to juice as much as possible to win, they’ll end up competing to getting as close to death as possible for our entertainment to achieve the max performance. They’re either killing themselves in the process or shaving decades off their natural lifespans. I don’t know if creating such a system would be ethical.

    • Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org
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      18 hours ago

      At that point the deeper research into the substances would be beneficial. As the side effects are proportional to dosing, the damage can be mitigated and with better and actual research into it is helpful in dealing with those side effects.

      And as with other drugs, which can be harmful as well and addictive. People are still going to get those, just with worse quality, less certainty that it is the actual substance and needing to rely on bro science to counteract any harmful effects.