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Originally Posted by Scoman
Granted,but how do you compare the two,you know the dangers of football,hockey, boxing from the time you are a kid. Steroid use is cheating yourself, your fellow players ,and the fans. I understand your point on the dangers,but don't see how the two compare.
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There are two aspects of it.
Cheating is always a tricky subject. There is never a real clear stance on it. Some people consider it part of the game and a show of competitiveness. It's like flopping in soccer and basketball or stealing signs in all sports. Usually there is no real guideline on what kind of cheating is more tolerable than others. It's often more about traditions.
Health in general is one aspect that everybody can agree on and the base for the real need to ban steroids. Nobody banned steroids because it's cheating. Actually, if it's not banned for health reasons it wouldn't be cheating at all.
The health impact of constant contact in NFL isn't something we knew much about. You'd be wrong to say that kids know about it coming in, considering how little we know about concussions even now. Some studies on former NFL players' brains were just done lately and triggered a round of discussion in the media. People didn't know that some NFL players became depressed and started destroying their lives because of the hit they took in NFL.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/26/athlete.brains/
And only lately did studies show that too much kids go back into games after suffering concussion too early.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...873131,00.html