(Greg, Rory, and Ramsey)
For our groups
presentation I looked at how we can ethically draw a line of what is reasonable
to consider unfair enhancement and what is just a highlight to sports and
athleticism such as running shoes. My goal was to figure out a way to
distinguish each example used in the book and those drawn from real life and
figure out a way to decide on each. I looked at how small things like running
shoes don’t really make you a better runner but enable you to avoid things that
would hinder you such as a sharp pebble something that has nothing to do with
your personal traits and has a lot more to do with the environment with which
you a running in. In realizing this I had to look at EPO’s being used by
endurance athletes to decide if there was for one a fundamental difference
between living in an environment that helps your body create them or to inject
them directly. This was interesting for me as the injection version is banned
but some athletes train in specially acclimatized houses that allow the natural
production and they are not under any ban. As I stated earlier y focus was
almost purely focused on trying to find an ethical benchmark with which I might
be able to view and breakdown each of the dilemmas brought forth in Sandal’s
chapter on Athletic Enhancement.
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