Steroids Should Be Banned
Watching, following, and playing sports is a tradition for families all across the world today. Sports are taken very seriously by athletes and fans and it forces players to feel the need to enhance their performance artificially. Although performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) are banned in professional sports today, many players feel it’s a necessity to compete vigorously with fellow players. PEDs can cause negative physical and psychological effects to the body. Athletes have used various substances in order to gain a competitive edge since the beginning of civilization. “The ancient Greeks ate sesame seeds, the Australian aborigines chewed the pituri plant, Norse warriors ate hallucinogenic mushrooms, and ancient cultures around the world had
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Steroids in sports calls for an unfair advantage and it is immoral. Whether one is a sports fan or participates in it themselves, it’s all the same. Players are constantly being pushed beyond their capacity in order to impress others and exceed expectations. The use of performance enhancing drugs becomes a chain reaction, but the reaction ends one person at a time. There is a way to be a force for change in the negative behavior. To promote better, stronger ethics, to make the default behavior good behavior, not bad, we have to value individuality more from a very young age. To reverse the trend of poor ethics, we need people to appreciate their own strengths, and understand their abilities/potentials. We have to get to the root of the problem and teach the harmful effects steroids has in schools. Cheating is learned and the habit is practiced throughout life. The youngster playing a board game and lacking the ability to lose graciously, the teen reading or hearing about a professional coach or athlete who uses sly maneuvers to gain an advantage over an opponent, or the student who sees parents and teachers behave in ways that are dishonest—each intuits that failure is not an option. It may not be a good feeling, but failing offers opportunity. It is an opportunity to develop character, to genuinely grow through learning. Keep in mind that cheaters never win. Skill is only developed by hours and hours of work, you can’t cut the
Steroids in sports calls for an unfair advantage and it is immoral. Whether one is a sports fan or participates in it themselves, it’s all the same. Players are constantly being pushed beyond their capacity in order to impress others and exceed expectations. The use of performance enhancing drugs becomes a chain reaction, but the reaction ends one person at a time. There is a way to be a force for change in the negative behavior. To promote better, stronger ethics, to make the default behavior good behavior, not bad, we have to value individuality more from a very young age. To reverse the trend of poor ethics, we need people to appreciate their own strengths, and understand their abilities/potentials. We have to get to the root of the problem and teach the harmful effects steroids has in schools. Cheating is learned and the habit is practiced throughout life. The youngster playing a board game and lacking the ability to lose graciously, the teen reading or hearing about a professional coach or athlete who uses sly maneuvers to gain an advantage over an opponent, or the student who sees parents and teachers behave in ways that are dishonest—each intuits that failure is not an option. It may not be a good feeling, but failing offers opportunity. It is an opportunity to develop character, to genuinely grow through learning. Keep in mind that cheaters never win. Skill is only developed by hours and hours of work, you can’t cut the