So baseball players are using steroids and there’s currently no rule saying they can’t. Is there any real reason I should care?
I’m a strong advocate of ethics, but I prefer to fight battles about things which actually MATTER in the overall scheme of things. Frankly, this is no more of an ethical crisis than the fact that certain musicians are stoned out of their gourds when they walk onstage. Get some perspective: professional baseball players are nothing more than somewhat overpaid entertainers. Earth will continue to orbit the sun no matter what drugs they take and whether or not their performance is enhanced by taking them…
I’m no more appalled by this than by learning that Milli Vanilli lip-synched their musical drivel, or that Bart Simpson’s voice is provided by a woman, or that certain game shows in the 1950s were rigged in order to make them more entertaining. Really, who cares? It’s show biz. It’s all about illusion and entertainment. We’re not talking foreign policy here…
One benefit, though, is that a 50% drug-abuse rate might save us from any number of tedious TV guest appearances by ex-jocks in coming decades, since many of them will be dead and all…
