Steroids and HGH in the MLB
Submitted by Forum Admin on Mon, 01/28/2008 - 20:03.
Much has been made about the governments involvement with the MLB to "clean up baseball's steroid problem." This is a noble cause; but is it a cause the government needs to spend our tax dollars on? Due to the government's involvement, the MLB cracked down on its steroid policy making similar to a "3 strikes and your out" policy. The MLB also launched a investigation thats since been called "The Mitchell Report." The Mitchell Report claimed that such players as Miguel Tejada, Erick Gagne and Roger Clemens had taken steroids during their career. Seemingly it looks like government has pushed the MLB in the right direction... but was it their place to do so?
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http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/news/mitchell/index.jsp
What do you think?
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well i think that it should be in the MLB's best interest to clean up baseball's steroid problem, assuming that they are an independent organization that should regulate how it pleases. HOWEVER, currently, the usage of these drugs is illegal NOT because of their performance-enhancing abilities but because of their "violence amplifying effects"(persay) that we have come to the conclusion, rightfully or not, that they have.
Now, with that statement made clear, you are asking whether the government should be allowed to spend our tax dollars to enforce laws? Now - i fully believe that the government should enforce laws and spend limited amounts of money to do so, but that brings us to a whole other topic on the justification of these laws. Is this steroid prohibition law justifiable? Does it really protect individual liberties and freedoms and secure the welfare of US citizens like it should be mandated to do? I am unsure of this.
When it all boils down to it, true motive or not, the government fully has in it's arsenal to claim that such an action was not with the intentions of enhancing sports entertainment, but rather an action to enforce and maintain the laws that govern our country. Argue as you please, but I find it a truth to say that laws currently DO govern our country - whether it be by peaceful means, with full intentions, without political and social bias, justifiable by the roots of our country's founding documents, or absolutely none of these, it is a conclusion we all must face. And it is a conclusion that will remain true -
Until people act.