Why are we bothering with this?
Dec. 13th, 2004 07:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
weaktwosMcCain is pushing the steroids issue.
Listen, I don't favor using drugs, but then, I don't really support the baseball industry. I think the government enacting legislation on this is somewhat of a waste of time, especially since it involves enforcement, and probably will not be rigidly enforced anyway.
Let these ball players destroy themselves; they are big boys (and getting bigger!). They are willing to take the risk for millions. It is profitable for them to do so. No matter the penalties, it's still profitable for them to do so. And no doubt their employer and the industry secretly supports this. I suggest that consumers who are not in favor of this boycott the sport and the companies that support them (mostly beer, right?) . Otherwise I think demand is driving this pumped up supply. If a ball player gets fined for steroid use, he gets punished, and the issue kind of fades away. Just look at the way this article proceeds. Steroids is just a means to an end to discuss McCain's '08 presidential prospects. Let's get a real issue, folks.
It's sports, people. It's entertainment. I'd like our national government to focus on things that matter, like good international Intelligence data, not creating more problems than we solve, working on corporate level corruption, campaign reform, mitigating the mainstream media interested in profit more than information. Let's stop acting like we're legislating morality while collecting profits on the other side.
Listen, I don't favor using drugs, but then, I don't really support the baseball industry. I think the government enacting legislation on this is somewhat of a waste of time, especially since it involves enforcement, and probably will not be rigidly enforced anyway.
Let these ball players destroy themselves; they are big boys (and getting bigger!). They are willing to take the risk for millions. It is profitable for them to do so. No matter the penalties, it's still profitable for them to do so. And no doubt their employer and the industry secretly supports this. I suggest that consumers who are not in favor of this boycott the sport and the companies that support them (mostly beer, right?) . Otherwise I think demand is driving this pumped up supply. If a ball player gets fined for steroid use, he gets punished, and the issue kind of fades away. Just look at the way this article proceeds. Steroids is just a means to an end to discuss McCain's '08 presidential prospects. Let's get a real issue, folks.
It's sports, people. It's entertainment. I'd like our national government to focus on things that matter, like good international Intelligence data, not creating more problems than we solve, working on corporate level corruption, campaign reform, mitigating the mainstream media interested in profit more than information. Let's stop acting like we're legislating morality while collecting profits on the other side.
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