Can somebody (preferably, a sports fan) tell me why we should care if
professional athletes use steroids or other performance enhancing drugs? Why
don’t we just let them all use it?

Don’t we want to see the best performance humanly possible?

Doesn’t every manner of technological innovation render sports stats from
previous eras moot?

Isn’t it already a settled matter that celebrity athletes are inherently poor role
models?

Our obsession with sports and steroids is a wonderful example of how
schizophrenic our culture is. On one hand we tell them they are the elite, the
best; that everyday rules don’t apply to them. Then we turn on them when they
act like the rules don’t apply to them.

I get that it irks some people that players who choose to stay clean can’t
compete. Well, I could take all the steroids in the world and it wouldn’t give me
the inherited traits I would need to compete with a professional athlete in
anything. Why is that any less fair?

I’m not a sports fan, so I don’t understand why this matters. Somebody help
me.