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Subject: Re: How about open weaponry boxing championship?

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 23:20:04 07/15/04

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On July 15, 2004 at 17:35:12, Omid David Tabibi wrote:

>I'm sure if you let each player take as much steroids and drugs he wants, you
>would see an even better soccer...

Probably not. Many professional athletes take performance enhancing drugs
already :)

Anyway, this analogy (just like all of your others in this thread) is not valid.
The situations are very different. The reasons why athletes can not use
performance enhancing drugs is not for the purpose of fairness.

1. It is illegal to take steroids for enhancing athletic performance
2. It can cause a great deal of harm to the body, including early death

So they obviously do not allow this in competition. Sorry, using a faster
computer is not a reasonable comparison to the use of steroids in athletics.



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