Should Doping Be Allowed in Sports

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Drug abusing has been and still is a social disease and a nightmare for folks. Agreeing to “National Institute on Drug Abuse” the Illicit Drugs cost our society $193 billion every year (Trends and Statistics on Drugs Abuse). One form of drug abusing is doping in sports, which has many effects on sports and the society. Despite this, there are some people who are shouting out to allow doping drugs for the athletes saying this would produce an environment that would be more congruent with the reality of professional sport in the 21st Century. Ellis Cashmore, a professor of culture, media and sport at Staffordshire University in the UK, wrote an article with the title “It's Time to Allow Doping in Sport”. “We could allow the utilization of performance enhancing substances, monitor the results and realize the whole process transparent”. However, Cashmore is mistaken because he looks out on the effects of allowing doping for athletes. I will discuss what Cashmore called the “predicted” objections to his article, which they are:
-This is cheating
-Taking drugs is wrong
-Sports stars are role models
-Fans would turn off sport

This is cheating. In Cashmore point of view he thinks that changing the regulations and raising the awareness that the permitted aids might be more dangerous than drugs can fix this problem. Let’s take the first point, which is changing the rules. If we follow this solution, we can apply this to make any crime legal. The rules have been set for each game, to draw the best out of the sport. Allowing of doping would ruin this system of rules and change what we expect from sports, which is to ascertain who has better skills. The other part of Cashmore’s solution is misleading. Medications athletes are using are des...

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