Why Do Athletes Use Performance Enhancing Drugs In Sports

By taking an approach to this using rule based ethical framework we can see all the wrongs within steroid use in professional sports. Some people spend their whole life working towards becoming a professional athlete. They put in countless hours working towards their goal of becoming the best athlete they can naturally and when somebody goes against the rules and uses a drug that enhances performance it is very unfair, but performance enhancing drugs are banned which is the most important thing to consider. If something is not allowed to be used then there is most likely a good reason. When you do Performance enhancing drugs, you are giving yourself an very unfair advantage because you will be able to reach your goals more quickly than others who are not using performance enhancing drugs. On top of this every single sport has banned all performance enhancing drugs. There are many ways that we could fix the problem of athletes using performance enhancing drugs in sports. These athletes spend their whole lives working towards getting better and using an illegal substance to get better goes against every moral they have ever been taught as an athlete.

Looking at our issue with a consequence based mindset we can know right away
We could initiate a stricter set of rules to try and help keep athletes away from these drugs. In my opinion we could easily help put a stop to this problem. For starters, the penalty for being caught using these drugs could be increased to a point where if the athlete was caught they would be heavily fined or even banned from professional sports. The league to crack down on steroid use could also begin to do bi-weekly drug tests. That may seem like a lot, but these drugs are very harmful to the user, they could potentially ruin their lives and a stricter set of rules could potentially shy these performance enchaining drug users away