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Cheating on steroids; What happened to ethics? →

Columnist Dave Krieger discusses an issue which underlies almost all stories on PEDs and steroids: the deterioration of ethics and morals in a culture that turns the other way when someone cheats.

001cheating Where have all the ethics gone?

We have been over this territory repeatedly with regard to baseball’s steroids era, and you’ve heard the list of rationalizations from baseball’s apologists. But what appears to be a growing compulsion to game the system, to cheat, is far from limited…

— 2 years ago