Stupidity on Steroids. I hoped, when I saw the heading "What's Wrong with Players on Steroids", that it was some kind of devil's-advocate joke, in which the preposterous arguments the authors make would be shown at the end to be false. But they continued to the very end making insane and irresponsible suggestions.
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"What's wrong with cheating? If a student gets into a college or job he can't handle, he'll fail in the long run anyway. Where's the harm?" Never mind that the honest person can't get the place in a limited college entry class or a job s/he deserves because that place was stolen by a cheater. Who cares? Only every sane and decent person in the world, that's who.
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The radical-libertarian relative-morality espoused by Lott and Jones are precisely the kind of evil that makes the whole world hate "conservatives", and why all over this planet moral leaders have to employ fear of an Almighty to keep people in line, because you can't reason with fools.
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Do these fools think that athletes really "weigh their choices" when deciding whether to take "performance enhancing" chemicals -- "On the one hand, I can do better than other players, even tho no one will believe me the real superior of people who performed without chemicals, and prolong my career and increase my salary; on the other hand, I might end up dead at 52 from a brain tumor or heart attack -- but what a way to go! in a blaze of glory in the recordbooks!" No. "It's not going to happen to me" is the official motto of morons who take drugs. It is for wiser heads to watch out for fools, and save them from their own stupidity.
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We can save athletes from the unintended consequences of their stupidity on steroids. Alas, we can't save Lott and Jones from their stupidity.
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(Responsive to "What's Wrong with Players on Steroids?", New York Post, December 7, 2004)
- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 10:44 AM