Steroid use in sports raises several ethical issues. It creates an unfair advantage for athletes who use performance-enhancing drugs. This breaks the implicit social contract that athletes will compete cleanly. It also damages the integrity of sports and role models when athletes cheat using steroids. While some argue steroids should be allowed to increase utility and happiness, this ignores the dishonesty of using banned substances and the effects on health and fair competition.

1. Steroid use, how is it affecting
our society ?
Moriba Touray
Ethics presentation
Strayer Universtiy

2. Whistle blowing
• Jose Canseco, a confessed steroid abuser,
Canseco was reprimanded when his first book
linking several big-name players to
performance enhancing drugs came out in
2005.
• Media and political attention paid to steroids.
• Admittedly, the challenge of dealing with
steroids has been put on the same moral
plane as battling poverty.
• Brought in the open this way.

3. Dishonesty
• Society cares because steroid use is a form of
cheating.
• Create an unfair advantage for those who take
them.
• Breaks the social contract athletes have
implicitly agreed to
• Even if there were a safe performance-
enhancing substance, if it weren't available to
everybody, using it would still be cheating.

4. Virtue
• Faith in our sacred institutions is shaken.
• A great athlete is (or should be), in addition, a
nice, kind, even-tempered person who lives a
clean life and exercises good judgment about
using the steroid.
• A sports hero should be a "role model" to the
entire population, especially the youth.
• Great athletic ability should be correlated with
any other virtue.

5. Trade Secrets
• Conspirators in these are everywhere—
coaches, institutions, even some parents.
• Parents who are in complete denial when
their kids—college athletes with eating
disorders.
• Parents are living through their children's
achievements, so it's very difficult to
break this pattern. Steroids don’t belong
in sports.

6. Utilitarianism
• Create a level playing for every participant.
• Good that yields the great utility for the
greatest number.
• Greatest happiness for the great number.
• Using steroid should be judged as right or
wrong solely by their consequences. Right
actions are those that produce the greatest
balance of happiness over unhappiness. Each
person's happiness is equally important.

7. Egoism
• Cheat in big leagues to make money.
• Promoting self-fish interests.
• Notion what you see here, what you say here,
let it stay here when you leave here.
• Banned drug that would guarantee them
victory.
• Substances often abused by athletes who
want to bulk up or gain strength and power.

8. Justice
• Comprehensive Drug Testing.
• In the United States , injectable version
of any drug is a prescription
medicine, available upon the script of a
licensed physician.
• Obstruction of justice for non-
compliance.
• Today, legitimate health warnings may be
disregarded. Control substance.

9. Property Right
• Teenage abusers fear not making the team or
getting noticed by the coaches and colleges.
• Gym-goers believe that they won't be able to
compete since all the other guys are using
steroids.
• False sense of accomplishment as strength
improves, muscles grow, and mentally.
• Sports users pay their hard earned money to go
have a good time at a ball game, but not to see
players who cheat themselves and use
substances to get themselves ahead.

10. Conflict
• Innocence and purity of hard work and
devotion are corrupted by illegal drug use.
• MLB have known about steroid use for some
time and have simply looked the other way to
avoid conflict with the players.
• Reluctance to enforce a strict drug testing
policy has resulted in a loss of integrity to the
game.

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