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Originally Posted by pewe
I care about the players, and feel horrible about the long term effect and quality of life that playing pro sports has on so many. As PED really damage the players bodies when taken to enhance performance, I’d definitely say PED are far less tolerable to me.
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This is actually the problem with PED use, there are virtually no long term health consequences associated with taking them correctly and in moderation. You may increase your risk of other injuries, but outside of catching an air bubble or going for the roids/coke caminiti combo nothing is going to happen.
Which leads to the real issue, risk vs reward. Since there is virtually no risk for taking them and the potential rewards are as big as they can possibly get its pretty unreasonable not to take them from a pure analysis of whether or not you should. This is just amplified for young players from poor countries where the opportunities to sign a 6-7 figure contract are being weighed vs the opportunities of making 500 a month or less without baseball.
Now I'm not having a moral or ethical argument here, but simply stating most baseball players at some point in their lives will be faced with the dilemma of whether or not they should take steroids, and for a very large % of them then answer is probably yes they should, and its also the reason a huge % of them do (same as every sport)