Consider the quotes that make up the pro vs. con arguments from which you created your posters. Which quote did you agree with the most? Why was that particular post interesting and effective for you?
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blake
10/20/2015 02:36:43 pm
this was a interesting post because i grew up learning and being told that drugs are bad and to never do them. but on the same hand i also grew up playing sports for my dad a very intense guy and having him push us to do our best in everything and doing everything to make me the best i could be at sports and to become a better athlete. id like to say im on the fence but Cody and my quote stated that we don't forbid smokers from smoking even though they know the health issues connected. then why should we forbid the athletes from doing roids if they know the side effects. all these people should be treated the same.
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Cody Taylor
10/20/2015 02:41:33 pm
I agree Blake. Well put.
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william hickey
10/20/2015 03:07:28 pm
but at the same time smoking doesn't improve your performance, whereas steroids do, but despite them helping your performance they also have a darker long term aspect that many people do not want to contend with making it supposedly unfair to them with others using them.
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blake
10/21/2015 02:46:25 pm
steroids improve your performance were smoking may satisfy you. when and where did performance come into to picture. they should just be treated similarly smoking was just the example. why would you compare smoking and steroids? 10/20/2015 02:40:41 pm
The quote that I agreed with the most was PRO of Health risks by Robert Simon, PhD. He said, " If we don't prohibit smokers from risking their health by smoking, why should we prohibit track stars or weightlifters from taking risks with their health in pursuit of their goals." If the athlete understands all the risks and benefits why stop him/her. I believe that athletes should be able to make their own decisions given they have weighed all the risks and benefits of performance enhancing drugs. The quote was mostly effective for me because I could agree with it and it was easy to portray in a propaganda poster. Plus it comes from a viable source and not just some athletes physician trying to make some extra money and he has experience with athletes being a former coach.
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lovin
10/20/2015 02:53:51 pm
i dont think you are looking at the long term affects of the use of perforce drugs athletes should focus more on future health and current health
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guess who
10/20/2015 03:03:27 pm
performance*
Logan
10/21/2015 02:42:54 pm
I agree with Cody. Everyone is exposed to drugs and has ways of getting to them. If people want to get better through the use of drugs then they can, and if you choose not to because of health risk, then that is your choice also. Everyone has the same availability to get better, it's just based off someones' choosing.
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lovin
10/20/2015 02:52:23 pm
the one i agreed with most and liked the most do to the fact of the nature that it was taking about and focusing on was the one about the cons of health risk. I liked this one very much because i feel everyone needs to focus on this the most do to the fact that using these drugs could ruin your life for ever it may be nice while in sports but you need to focus on the later affects in life after you cant do sports or anything else and ask yourself was it worth it i bet most athletes would disagree do to there current health and even there health during the time they were taking there performance inhansing drugs to do better. The article talks about how doping will have negative long term affects like i talked about just befog this i think more people need to focus on the long term affects of performance drugs.
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cat
10/21/2015 02:54:21 pm
I agree.
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william hickey
10/20/2015 03:02:12 pm
"there is no coherent argument to support the view that enhancing performance is unfair."
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Logan
10/21/2015 02:33:00 pm
The quote that stood out the most to me was, "There is no coherent argument to support the view that enhancing performance is unfair; if it were, we would ban coaching and training." (Norman Fost). It stood out to me because it makes me ask, what would it take to consider something to be unethical in sports? If enhancing drugs aren't "fair," then we should ban coaching and training altogether.
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_-_-_-_-_-_ yeah
10/21/2015 02:46:14 pm
There are pros and cons to just about everything we do in sports, there are also a lot of arguments in college and professional sports. But one of the biggest arguments in all of sports, high school included, is about performance enhancing drugs. I personally think that if you are willing to ruin your body just to be good for a year then you should take them. Its your choice. However i dont think that they should be recommended by anyone, if they were promoting the enhancers then a lot more athletes would be taking them and that would mean that more athletes would be coming out of their career worse than when they started.
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blake
10/21/2015 02:55:51 pm
´´ ruin your body just to be good for one year ´´ wow! your going to have to take these drugs way more than one year to ruin it. the people that are having effects have miss used the drugs
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Jon
10/28/2015 02:58:16 pm
Yea u have to ask is there more pros then cons
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Anteia
10/21/2015 02:57:38 pm
Both sides of the argument have a few valid points. Personally, athletes should be able to take drugs as long as they know what they are risking. On the PRO side of the argument, Peter French was correct in saying that "nobody is forced to become a competitive athlete." Being competitive by taking drugs is a major choice that every athlete makes. On the CON side, the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse states that "One athlete's decision to use performance enhancing drugs also exerts a powerful effect on other athletes in the competition." They are correct, I believe. I think that one athlete taking drugs influences the others and makes the competition more intense.
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Jon
10/25/2015 05:44:07 pm
I believe that this is America and that u should have the choice in what u use. I also believe that younger people will want to do what the big athletes do and it will make a bad role model so I think that they should wear kids about the risk of the drugs and make the age limit to 21 before u can use them
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