The Moral Argument for Doping in Sports - Facts So Romantic
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To almost all sports fans, doping in sports is an issue of near-religious importance, says Julian Savulescu. According to the Australian bioethicist and moral philosopher, fans celebrate people of extraordinary physical ability who dedicate themselves to training to perform an athletic feat to perfection—but when they augment their abilities with drugs and enhancers, fans can feel personally wronged as if a crime has been committed against them. Just look at what happened to Lance Armstrong.The United States’ Lance Armstrong celebrates in France on July 22 2004 during that year’s Tour de France, 17. Etappe/Bourg d’Oisans - Le Grand-Bornand.Friedemann Vogel/Bongarts/Getty ImagesTime to wake up and smell the steroids, he says. As director of the Uehrin Centre for Practical Ethics at the (...)