There's a difference between using drugs to get high and using drugs to get a job done. Abuse of any substance is not OK, drug or otherwise.
For example, I am not anti-spraypaint, but if you are using it to get high, then I am against that.
Dahahaha, man you're just too much. I think it's written somewhere in the forum rules : when you don't know a damn thing about a subject, you avoid participating to the discussion to spout garbages & missinformation. That's exactly what you should do when the main subject of the thread is
drugs.
You've never done drugs, you've probably never seen anyone doing drugs, you probably don't know anyone using drugs, I'm pretty sure you've never seen drugs others than tobacco and alcohol with your own eyes.
Fyi, No-one ever sprayed paint on his face to get high, it's a (dangerous) side effect if you happen to paint something in a room with a very bad air flow. Spray-painting your face ain't a thing.
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Back on topic, steroïds and other drugs to improve your physical aptitudes for the sake of sport & performance is utterly stupid, it should stay banned from competition forever.
Why people use those ?
Sport & entertainement is a huge money box. Professional athletes who use those drugs probably do it because of the profitable advantage that is being one of the top players or practicants of a mediatic sport, being in the winning team... They do not use for the sake of "pushing the limits of the human race", they do it because they can get a shitload of money out of it, for their clubs/teams too. Also, most of those athletes do it under medical observation, and even with precautions some athletes end up with serious health issues very early, if not dying.
Same thing goes for amateurs. Most amateurs who use those self-improving drugs try to go in the pro-leagues, except they probably use without telling anyone and certainly not a doctor, so they end up fucking themselves up more than they should.
There's no "reasonnably" taking anabolitic steroids, when you want to compete at high level in any sport, you need to be constantly at your top game, which means that if you became a recognized sportsman because you used steroids, you'll have to keep them rolling to stay at your place. And that's is NOT being reasonnable. Using any drug regulary during years will always end up fucking your body up.
Also, to people saying banning those drugs is going against technological advances :
Well first, this is NOT the case, that's not what "going against technological advances" means. For instance, refusing to use camera referee-ing in football(soccer) IS "going against tech advances". Using fossil energy and fuel cars when we could have free clean energy IS too.
Banning unfair ways of winning from the competitive scene IS NOT.
Secundo, you guys seem to forget one of the first rules of sport & competition has always been and still is fair-ness, fairplay, equality for the athletes.
We could compare this to the e-sport scene : why not allowing cheats in competition and LAN tournaments ? aimbots, wallhacks, triggers, spawning items etc... isn't that going against technology & knowledge ? and that would be so fucking interesting...
Anyway, a lot of you seem to think that sport and competition is only about "being the best", winning the maximum of shits and be a star... that's fucking dramatic, you think like perfect products of our stupid douchebag-glorifying society.
Sport fistly is about being in good shape/health... and competition is about measuring your skills to other practicants in a well-spirited sport meeting. It brings people together, around a passion, and no matter if you win or lose, you'll learn something about yourself and how to get better for the next one.
Allowing anabolitic drugs is just killing all of this.
Last edited by deprav; Oct 22, 2014 at 09:30 PM.