Just as the title goes.

So many athletes nowadays are taking PEDs (performance-enhancing drugs). It sounds like every day another childhood hero of this generation has their name tainted as being a juicer. But there are plenty of other players who haven't been found guilty of taking drugs that appear to have likely taken them, or be currently taking them.

So because the use of drugs is increasing, should we be more critical towards who have taken them, or should we just let it slide because their competition is doing it too so it's a way to stay on-par?

All depends on your deffinition of Steroids. A steroid in the strictest sense is simply some form of a naturally occuring substance like testosterone, which people allready have in their bodies.... Which a lot of very very famous people use or have used in the past. This kind of steroid abuse causes 3 deaths a year in the USA... when compared with other things like driving, drinking, smoking, parecetamol etc etc its no where near as harmfull... And some people need these kind of drugs to stay alive... Its been proven to help people with AIDS, muscular disopraphy etc...

also other types of performance enhancing drugs which do things like increase the red blood cell count in your blood can also be achieved by legal means ie high altitude training or preasurised sleep chambers...

in other words, i don't think they are as dangerous or bad as people seam to want to make out. I do think they should be kept out of sports but accept this will never happen. So instead i would like to see a drug legal league for all sports, where the atheletes can take whatever the hell they want, at least then it is a level playing field and the atheletes who don't want to have their own drug free leagues still...

I don't think people should take performance enhancing or recreational drugs. I don't care if they do, and I don't look down on them, I just personally don't think people ought to rely on chemicals. But I take this further and include caffeine. People will proudly say "oh man, I can't do anything in the morning without my coffee." Obviously that's fucking horseshit to begin with, but next time someone says that, I'm going to say "Yeah, I'm the same, I can't get out of bed without my heroin."

Not that that has anything to do with anything, but yeah steroids in competitive sports is bad, but if you want to take them because you aspire to be a musclebound asshole, go right ahead and do it. In those cases it's the vanity I find more disgusting.

I could very much relate to this. I use to be one of those people who would say "oh man, I can't do anything in the morning without my coffee" and when I actually stopped drinking it, it didn't really make a difference. I do believe that it can be addictive, but I guess you're right that it is more socially acceptable to say that about coffee when it indeed acts/is like a drug.

I personally don't care what other people do with their bodies when it comes to steroids. But concerning the health risks it has, I would only take steroids if they are mandated by a doctor.

Actual steroids have no long term irreversible effects in men as they are all hormones naturally found in men..