Philosophy Paper
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A. Hook:
1. A documentary tells the story of the fall of the Biogenesis Antiaging Clinic in Miami, where Tony Bosch provided performance-enhancing drugs to dozens of athletes, including the man who was then the highest- paid player in Major League Baseball history: Alex Rodriguez.
2. What are Performance Enhancing Drugs? How PEDs spread throughout the athletes? how they trade them? and how PEDs impact the games?
b. Main question: Should Performance Enhancing Drugs be allowed in sports?
c. Thesis statement: Since banning doping has less effect on protecting fairness and punishing rule-breakers, many people think that we can legalize and regulate performance-enhancing drugs to the benefit of sports and sports fans alike. However, using Performance Enhancing Drugs will violate the spirit of sports and increase the athletes' health risk. It also indirectly encouraging youngsters to do the same. Thus, Performance Enhancing Drugs should not be allowed in sports.
Body One:
Allowing PEDs in sports will threaten athletes' health. All drugs, including PEDs, have extreme, long-term, negative effects on a person's physical and mental states.
a. Steroids can hurt athletes’ body.
1. Using steroids has been associated with liver problems, heart problems, stroke, blood clots and cancer.
2. Some doctors also think players are tearing more tendons and ligaments because their bulked-up muscles have gotten too big for their bodies.
b. Steroid use also has mental side effects.
1. Depression has also been linked to steroid use, and athletes who use performance-enhancing steroids are more likely to attempt suicide than athletes who do not use them.
2. Steroid users may become overly aggressive or combative, a condition commonly referred to as “roid rage.”
Body Two:
Allowing PEDs in sports will only increase the problem.
a. It could potentially force clean athletes to dope, which results in them slowly killing themselves in order to stay at the new competitive level set by the steroid users.
b. It threaten the fundamental integrity of sport.
c. It send the wrong message to our kids. They may go the rest of their lives with crushed hearts, or they may take a cue from that athlete and start using steroids themselves.
Body Three:
Banning PEDs have done less to protect fairness and punish rule-breakers and more to discourage athletes from reaching the highest levels of success.
a. We don’t ban the advantages that modern-day athletes have over their predecessors, such as advanced machines and creatine, and that attitude of progress should apply across the board.
b. Even though PEDs can shows people the top-class performance, but it violates the spirit of sports and is dangerous.
Conclusion:
A. Restatement of Thesis Statement:
Although using PEDs can bring users to a higher level, allowing PEDs would ultimately take away from the true purpose of playing and diminishes the core values of sports. It also seriously risk the health and safety of users and sets a deadly example for children. Thus, allowing PEDs is a bad idea.
B. Next Steps:
As for us, we have to make sure we are not encouraging these bad behaviors. It is important to realize the many risks of legalizing PEDs and take whatever actions possible in order to protect athletes and the nature of the sport itself.
