The next reason people believe using performance enhancing drugs in professional sports
is wrong or a social evil is how insanely competitive people get in just a game. In the article
“Conceptual Problems with Performance Enhancing Technology in Sport” Emily Ryall talks
about how the majority of problems inherent in professional sport, such as whether athletes
should be able to take particular drugs, wear particular clothing, or utilize particular tools,
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arguably come from a conceptual one based on flawed logic and competing values. Sport is a
“human enterprise that represents a multitude of human compulsions, desires and needs; the urge
to be competitive, to co-operate, to excel, to develop, to play, to love and be loved,
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He turns to
Tamburrini's positive arguments for lifting the ban, challenging three specific claims: “that
lifting the ban will erase competitive inferiority, that it will help athletes in perfecting their skills,
and that it will improve knowledge that can reduce harm to athletes”. Erasing competitive
inferiority is just a fancy way of saying that the playing field for professional sports will be more
even in terms of athletic ability. Every player at the professional level has the necessary elite
skill set or they wouldn’t be there, but not everybody is blessed with super-natural athleticism as
most of the best players are in the professional leagues. Using performance enhancing drugs
could balance that out by giving that skilled player the elite athleticism he needs to go from
being good to an all-star. Every athlete in the world wants to be the best they can be and want to
perfect their sport they play. Performance enhancing drugs would exactly make them absolutely
perfect but it would put them that much close to conquering that goal. If it was more