Ethics Of Performance Enhancing Drugs

Today’s athletes are highly paid and well-respected by many people. Once the athlete reaches the professional level, they become a role model for many. Sometimes this image culture becomes too important to the athlete, engrossing him or her to the point where the attention they are receiving is more intoxicating than the game they play.There is pressure to use performance enhancing drugs in order to maintain their societal status. They forgot about the hard work they put into getting to the highest level of sports. Professional athletes who use performance enhancing drugs should have harsher punishments than those currently in place if they use them.

These days it seems as society is constantly being faced with Ethical Dilemmas. Whether it is normal everyday citizens, actors, business executives, and even athletes. The way that every person deal with ethical dilemmas is by relying on their worldview. The world of professional sports is a very tough and competitive place. It is full of top level athletes that are masters in their respective sports and the struggle that they all face is to be better than everyone else. With all these athletes working hard and looking for new ways to better themselves, some take the easy way over the right way. In this paper, the ethical dilemma of performance enhancing drugs being used in sports will be addressed

The largest Performance Enhancing Drug scandal, in baseball, all started over a debt owed to Porter Fischer in 2013. Fischer worked for Tony Bosch who owned a clinic called Biogenesis of America, which specialized in weight loss and hormone replacement therapy. When Bosch did not pay back his debt to Fischer, Fischer became angry and wanted revenge. This is when Porter stole documents from Tony to get his revenge by letting the world know who “Dr. Tony Bosch,” is what he called himself even though he wasn’t a real doctor, really was doing at this so called “clinic”. In the documents that had all the client names there were twenty Major League ballplayers that MLB ended up linking to the clinic, but only one stood out to Fischer: Alex Rodriguez. This was an eye opener for Major League Baseball and they knew something needed to be done about the use of PEDs in the sport of baseball.

Zach Petersel, in his essay, “Here's Why Suspensions Won't Deter PED users Like Maria Sharapova,” claims that the risk and rewards of using performing enhancing drugs (PEDs) is unbalanced and needs to change. He adopts a slight angry tone in order to appeal that big-name athletes caught using PEDs don’t face major consequences. He uses this tone to appeal to readers who might also want change in this topic. This feature should be printed in The Shorthorn because it will prompt students to look at this issue in a deeper sense and see exactly how important this issue affects an individual and sport. In this essay, I will talk about how Petersel talked about Sharapova use of PEDs, how Petersel responds to counterarguments, and how athletes should be punished for using PEDs.

Essendon Australian Football League club found guilty just last year of supplying their sport stars with performance enhancing drugs. Where then the club resulted with a disqualified from the 2013 finals and fined two million dollars and coach Hird accepts a 12-month ban. That’s just how horrible these drugs really are.

As great as sports is for our society, there is still a pressing issue regarding ethics in sports: the use of performance enhancing drugs in sports. There is a debate among athletes, owners and fans whether athletes should be able to use performance enhancing drugs . With that being said, performance enhancing drugs has had a negative effect on sports Athletes should not be able to use performance enhancing drugs because they have

Performance-enhancing drugs are substances used to improve any form of activity performance in humans. In sports, the phrase "performance-enhancing drugs" is commonly used in reference to anabolic steroids. There are a few types of people that typically use perfomancing enhancing drugs in an everyday setting. Bodybuilders, athletes, students and sometimes, military personel.

Professional athletes are role models to the American children across the Nation. Professional athletes must follow ethical standards to play fairly in their sport. This means that players must compete without the assistance of performance enhancing drugs such as steroids (Tynes, 2006). Yet, professional athletes choose to cheat by taking illegal substances, which results in the death of some players and a wide variety of health problems. The Federal Government realized that the use of anabolic steroids is a form of cheating and defrauds the players and fans of “real” competition. As a result, for the concern of the athletes’ health and concern for the ethical standards of the game played, the Anabolic Steroid Act of 1990 (ASCA) was

In conclusion, it seems obvious that athletes caught doping should be banned for life and should not be given a ‘second chance.’ These athletes take performance enhancing drugs purely out of choice and to give them a competitive advantage over other athletes. They know that doping is forbidden by their sporting committee and still choose to dope which

Professional sports people who have previously tested positive to performance enhancing drugs should not be able to compete at the Olympics. Performance enhancing drugs violates the spirit of sport and subsequently causes detrimental outcomes for athletes. (Refer to Appendix 1.0) Throughout this essay it will explore and examine current legal legislations within sporting. The usage of performance enhancing drugs has overtime become a major issue within jeopardising the health of athletes and become a major scandal in the news. Performance enhancing drugs are defined as a substance taken by athletes such as anabolic steroids used by professional and amateurs to enhance their performance. The world anti doping agency has a code of conduct that explores the prohibited list of drugs to be used within sports. This document explores anti doping rules, regulations

Athletes are destroying their integrity, the sport’s integrity and anyone they represents integrity, such as companies or organisations. Sporting integrity is being eaten away by the use of performing enhancing drugs. A sport that displays integrity can be identified as honest and sincere. It is supporting good sportsmanship and providing a safe and a fair environment for all involved. A person with integrity does what they say they will do in accordance with their values and beliefs. Just having integrity as a person will make people more open to trusting, respecting and believing in you. By using illegal drugs you lose your sporting integrity and this then becomes difficult to earn back. Huge worldwide sporting brands want to be associated with the biggest and best

Sports are a huge part of the world’s history. Anyone can look in a textbook or on the internet and see that sports have been played for a long time, whether they be competitive or recreational. Sports bring people of different beliefs, cultures, and races together. Sports are something that can help people to forget the problems that are happening in an increasingly scary world. While sports are great and the athletes that perform for these crowds are dedicated to putting on a show, there are some athletes that feel they need a competitive edge over the other players to truly shine in some of the greatest spotlights in the world. These players go on to lead their league in certain statistics in a year, or even start to work their way up the record books. Not all athletes do this the ethical way however. Some athletes turn to performance enhancing drugs, otherwise known as PEDs, to help them gain that edge over the other athletes. There are issues that are occurring regularly in the sporting world due to athletes taking PEDS. The playing field becomes quite uneven for athletes, on and off the field. Another issue that arises when PEDs are discussed is whether players should be able to make the decision for themselves whether to take the performance enhancing drug or not. Lastly, a big issue that is talked about is whether PEDs are effecting the history of sports and damaging the past players’ achievements. How can these issues disappear? The answer is to close the current

In his study, McKeever cites moral reasons for prohibiting performance enhancing drugs (PED’s) in professional sport. The first reason for prohibiting PED’s cited by McKeever was when athletes compete against each other in a sporting event they form a natural bond. This bond requires trust to maintain, and if both sides are not honest about PED use then that can damage the spirit of competition. The second motive for prohibiting PED use in professional athletes is equality. McKeever believes that for competition to be fun for all sides then the playing field must be level for all sides. If some participants are unwilling to follow the rules then they are preventing the rest of the participants from playing in a fair arena. McKeever offers a solution to PED use in his paper. He claims that more diversity among sporting leagues would alleviate the issue of athletes using PED’s. If some leagues were created that allowed athletes to use PED’s then athletes would have the autonomy to choose which league they would rather participate in. McKeever also states that athletes, and people in general, need autonomy to be content. The problem with his scenario is funding. If there is not enough funding to create the autonomy needed then McKeever claims that morally we must shift our viewpoint to allow PED use in professional sport.

In today’s sports world, performance enhancing drugs have become more and more of a problem. Famous athletes with prestigious accomplishments do not always play by the rules. Celebrities with countless amounts of fans and admirers turn out to be nothing but a cheater. These athletes earn millions of dollars to simply perform, entertain, and follow the rules of their respected sport. Unfortunately, performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) have changed the way people look at athletes and their legacies.

To begin, if athletes are permitted to use PEDs, it ruins the integrity of the sport. Sports are valued by many people throughout the world and there are countless young, upcoming athletes that are thriving to one day play at a high level. However, if these sports turn into a cheater’s game by allowing drugs, the dreams of those hard-working athletes who refuse PEDs will be at a disadvantage. To show, “The governing bodies that oversee drug testing, who hand out and uphold penalties, do this in hopes that one particular athlete or group of athletes won’t gain an unfair edge over another by using a particular banned substance. Why? Because this would be cheating, and the mutual feeling is that cheating ruins the integrity of sports” (Hodnik 3). Athletes