12-16-2004, 10:20 AM
Hiya,
I dug a bit deeper, and came up with some more food for thought.
And to tell you what I think:
While it may be true that professional competitive sport is the freak show / meat inspection of humanity, I still don't think that it should be permitted to balance genetic advantages with drugs or alien hormones. This would be a one-way strategy, because quickly the genetic superior athlets would see their pelts float away and start to take those enhancers, too. What we would have then, would be a health risking, gender denying and humaneness lacking (Your 6 million dollar man example springs to mind ;) ) artificial situation which hasn't got anything in common with the sportive, fair and competitive mind that we aspire as an utopia.
Greetings, Fragbait
I dug a bit deeper, and came up with some more food for thought.
And to tell you what I think:
While it may be true that professional competitive sport is the freak show / meat inspection of humanity, I still don't think that it should be permitted to balance genetic advantages with drugs or alien hormones. This would be a one-way strategy, because quickly the genetic superior athlets would see their pelts float away and start to take those enhancers, too. What we would have then, would be a health risking, gender denying and humaneness lacking (Your 6 million dollar man example springs to mind ;) ) artificial situation which hasn't got anything in common with the sportive, fair and competitive mind that we aspire as an utopia.
Greetings, Fragbait
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