Can someone explain to me why steroids are bad?
Question:It seems to me that steroids are a good thing. I'll admit that they're unhealthy, but so is standing a foot away from the target of a 100 mph fastball or being the a pitcher in the way of a screaming line drive. Also, why are steroids considered unfair but vitamins are considered natural. Vitamins give players an unnatural performance boost and nobody protests it. (This was proven when Palmeiro, after testing positive for steroids, claimed that he thought he was injecting himself with B12 vitamins.) If we ban steroids, shouldn't we ban vitamins?
I know I sound biased but that's because I have an opinion on this issue. I want to hear how someone who is anti-steroids would respond to my argument.
By the way, I'm looking for a good opposing argument, so I'm not going to pick the best answer based on who agrees with me the most.
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Right to start I'm anti-steroids, but more for the reason that I don't really get sports **don't all start shouting straight away** but there are huge medial reasons as well.The first thing I'd like to say is the unpredictibility, not all portions of steroids produce the same effect, a small dose may have a more violent effect on one single person than a huge dose on another, and of course there are no tests to see how much a single person should take.
Second thing, for sportspeople who are so concerned about fitness and preformence I don't understand why they would take something so damaging, I got this offline:
Anabolic steroids are extremely unpredictable. Different dosages of different types of anabolic steroids interacting with an individual's unique biochemistry cause widely different and unpredictable results. If a professional baseball player is using anabolic steroids, he may experience a sudden increase in body weight and muscular development, insomnia, irritability, aggressive combative behavior, puffy face, severe acne, bad breath, a yellowing of the eyes and skin, premature hair loss, hyperactivity, and exaggerated mood swings that include uncontrollable outbursts of anger.
Males may also experience testicular shrinkage and can develop female breast tissue on the pectoral muscles. Continued use can result in life-threatening situations involving the liver, cardiovascular system, and brain.
So weight gain, weird, irregualar muscles, hair loss and insomnia are things that all athletes want?
Don't start arguing that if used under supervision and with the right knowledge these things can have positive effects blah . . . . blah . . . .blah.
Fact is, is that steroids are for men who have extremely rare and low levels of testosterone, so why use it in any other case?
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they will make your weiner shrink up and it will stay that way no matter if you're off the 'roids or not.Tiny Weiner or NO Tiny Weiner.
You decide.
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umm well itll give you problems with your "downtairs" region (like making it smaller, and nobody wants that) and not to mention.your heart could basically explode! DUUUUHHHH!Is it looking like boston and atlanta in world series? or dodgers?
Steriods increase testosterone levels allowing more muscle mass to be built (even when a person reaches what is naturally their max). Not to mention it is kinda like sumthing that keeps you going throughout a long sports season. Vitamins are natural. We all need vitamins to survive. Steriods are a man-made product for those who can not perform at the highest level anymore.In Major League Baseball how does a player earn a golden glove.?
There are health hazards, including some instances of overly aggressive behavior.I think the issue is that they want to keep the game as fair as possible. If they open the game up to steroids, it will get to the point where juicers are the only ones playing, and that's kind of a bad image.
And I see what you are saying about standing next to a 100mph fastball, but there is an almost 100% certainty that you will experience health problems with steroids, while there really isn't an overwhelming percentage chance yo uwill get hit with a ball.
Re: Unfair Advantage
The whole point about it being an unfair advantage is that players would practically be REQUIRED to take steroids in order to be competitive. That, or the guys that do not would have to work much harder to compete.
Plus, what you are saying doesn't make sense...if you feel it would be equal if everyone took steroids, then wouldn't it be just as equal and have the added benefit of being totally natural if no one took steroids, which is the whole point of making them illegal? Comparing vitamins to steroids is an obvious fallacy, because there have been no studies shown that vitamin usage can cause health problems. If you want to make that argument, then even eating regularly would be considered an unfair advantage over someone that doesn't because the guy that eats is going to play better and suffer less fatigue. That's taking the argument to an extreme.
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Steroids are a Class III drug in the USA, are regulated by the federal government and it's illegal, and a felony, to possess ANY amount without an Rx.They are regulated because they are dangerous, not because they enhance performance and skew statistics. Vitamins are not dangerous.
Results of steroid abuse:
http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/ne...
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I think we should roid everybody up and push the fences back 100 feet. Then we can watch infielders and pitchers die on a weekly basis from screaming liners, and have fantastic roid rage bench-clearing brawls where the players tear each other apart limb from limb. Deathball 2010.Isn't Jackie Robinson overrated?
I've run this debate and here's my take.Most times you use a corked bat, or a spit ball, or steal signs, the player is just cheating IN the game. Juicing cheats THE game. The very fabric of the competition. There has always been a certain amount of cheating in baseball. It's been allowed. but any team could try to do those things. With Juice the game is being cheated. Not IN the game but THE game itself.
Steroids can KILL YOU! Ask Lyle Alzeido (sp?). They can damage ligiments and tendons and effect your testosterone levels in your body. B-12 is a natural occuring vitamin in your system. Proper vitamin intake isn't cheating, it's taking care of your body. Steroids don't "help" you in the long term, they actually KILL YOU! Your heart, testies, and brain will all thank you for NOT juicing.
I will, however, admit that if I were a professional athlete it would be NEAR impossible for me NOT to want to juice. I'd be looking for the edge to win every chance I could get.
I'm not on the high horse, but see where, as a fan, I have a problem with juicing. Plus I don't want my son to grow up thinking that he needs steroids to play ball.
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I think Evil Knievel (daredevil from the 70's) put it best. To paraphrase: Using performance enhancing drugs is like fueling your car with nitro. Sure, it will go like hell for a couple of hundred miles, then your engine melts.To continue with the analogy, taking vitamins is pretty much the equivalent of using a high grade fuel that your engine is designed to run on or installing high performance plugs. These enhance the performance but don't run the mechanism beyond what it was engineered for.
Steroids, on the other hand, will provide noticeable performance enhancement in the short term but can cause long term damage like heart valve problems, sexual difficulties, and any number of unwanted side effects.
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I don't know how you can say that because Palmeiro claims he thought it was B12 that vitamins give you an unnatural boost. Because it actually was steroids. Steroids are and have been illegal for a very long time. Ask Lyle Alzedo why steroids are bad. Oh, you can't, he's dead. I have never heard of anyone with violent mood swings from taking some B-12. As long as steroids are illegal there is no good argument for their use. Not only should players be suspended but they should be reported to the authorities as the criminals that they are.How bad do you hate the NY YANKEES?
steroids may make your muscles bigger but a couple years down the road you become weak look at Huck hooligan he yoused steroids when he was a pro reseller and it made him huge now hes weak and scrawnyP.S. steroids dont make you penis smaller they make your balls smaller
Simple answer. They give you more muscles. This is an unfair advantage. How would you like to fight a guy that is taking steroids. It would be pretty hard to beat him. Not to mention steroid are illegal. They also cause long term health issues. There is no long-term benefit to taking steroids.
Has metal bat ever killed a pitcher?
Come on! Here are a list of damaging side effects:Heart Disease
Stunted Growth
Liver Cancer
Liver FAILURE (as in death)
Uncontrollable Anger
Depression
Muscle and tendon damage
Etc, Etc...
Your argument sounds alot like the people who thought cocaine was safe back in the 80's. Then when so many celebs died of overdoses it lost it's 'cool' image. Same deal with smoking. One cig might not kill you but it sure isn't healthy... and for a nation looking for a national health care system the health (or lack of health) of one person becomes everybody else's expense! Not to mention... tearing a muscle or tendon limits the kind of work you can do for the rest of your life. Hurt+Can't work= welfare + sitting on the street corner begging for change.
Not to mention that kids in high school get the message that to be one of the 'pros' they must take steroids. The damages to an adolescent are more pronounced. Why would you encourage teenagers to ruin their lives by saying drug use is okay?? Saying NO to drugs is hugely important to our children's futures and society as a whole.
And as for steroids bieng like vitamins and 'natural', well christ! Crack comes from the cocoa plant... that's natural... And Aresinic comes from a plant too... Snake venom is pretty natural... you get my point.
Look at the following websites:
http://www.steroidabuse.org/
www.drugabuse.gov
www.dea.gov
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Ask Lyle Alzado why steroids are bad. Steroids pose a number of health risks that people do not realize. Vitamins are excepted because they are a naturally occuring substance that is healthy for you, what health risks do vitamins pose? Another reason people are against steroids are because they are illegal, vitamins are legal, steroids are not. Vitamins and steroids are two totally different things, vitamins do not allow the perfomance boost and unfair advantage that steroids do. People do not need to inject themselves with vitamins they can just go eat different foods and get those same vitamin boost while the only way to get a boost from steroids are to inject them.As for you statement about standing in front of a 100 mph fast ball and a line drive. There is still less of a health risk involved in standing in the way of a fats ball because how often have people been killed in the majors by getting hit by the ball? There have been plenty of people drilled by pitches and line drives in the majors how many have died? Very few, if you allow steroids in and the power increases unnaturally then you are risking people being killed by cheaters. Now look at how many people die from using steroids, there are a tons. Also, look at the other side effects, when people stop taking steroids there is now scientific proof that it can cause depression and suicide, how many people commit suice from vitamins? Remember the family that testified in front of congress because their son committed suicide after stoping his use of steroids.
Steroids are a dangerous substance for so many reason, vitamins do not have these dangers. Steroids pose a serious health as well as a serious mental threat.
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it makes it unfai for the players who want to stay healthy and play baseball. In all honesty, if everyone used steroids, baseball and other sports would be more exciting, but the health effects would be detremental to the players.What determines if a player is awarded a League or World Series ring?
Prior to be them being banned substances they were not bad.MLB knew all along that players were using substances to increase their level of play. They turned their heads due to the amount of revenue that was being made from ticket sales from all of the 30+ home run hitters that nearly doubled in number from previous years.
Even now baseball slaps players on the risk for using.
Here are the current penalties for getting caught.
• First positive test: 10 days.
• Second positive test: 30 days.
• Third positive test: 60 days.
• Fourth positive test: One year
Are you kidding me?. Why so many chances? Money!
MLB does not care about the use of steroids. If they were so called "gung ho" about riding the game of them any player caught would be banned from the game. It's that simple.
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They make you stronger, and it is very unfair. Vitamins are NATURAL and are found in every day foods and vitamins have been consumed by humans for hundreds of years, while steroids where made in the recent past (50 years).Does MLB count the stats from before 1876?
you simply need to do more homework on the subject. If we allow steroids then we might as well allow methamphetamines, cocaine, and any drug of choice.How rare is a 1987 Chris Bosio TOPPS error card?
it is cheating man... and also a drug.Just ask professional wrestlers: Eddie Guerrero, Curt Hennig, David "British Bulldog" Smith and Ravishing" Rick Rude..Oh yea you can't, why because they are dead from prolong steroid use.
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