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Name 1 positive and 1 Negative about PEDS.

Positive: Grows your clitoris leading to easier orgasms.
Negative: Makes you too horny.
 
Positive - I fucking hate steroids in sports. I'm all for them for non-athletes, because I believe in freedom and I think they can improve quality of life greatly when used responsibly with medical supervision. In sport, it's only morally wrong because it's against the rules, but it should never be legal.

Negative - It would ruin the sport for a bunch of reasons.

First, it would be impossible to regulate. Preventing dangerous abuse would be as hard/impossible as preventing its use in general is now.

Second, not everyone will be willing to use steroids or be able to afford them, so guys who could have been great won't even compete. Allowing steroids would significantly decrease the talent pool. And allowing steroids in MMA if none of the other major sports allow it would just make this problem worse. Very few parents will let their kid train in the one steroid sport, especially if it's fighting. I think a lot of older athletes would feel the same way.

It's unnatural. Why is this bad? Watching athletes compete beyond the capacity of natural human ability is tantamount to watching fighting robots compete. You'd always know you weren't watching real human fighting, but an exaggerated version of it. I don't care about robot fights, or dog fights, or little children fights. I want to see the best human adult athletes compete. Exaggerating that for the sake of, what? Making MMA look like a fantasy comic book? I find the idea perverse.

Steroids would also taint the vastly underrated mental aspect of fighting. Steroids can greatly affect how you behave and your attitude. They can increase confidence, increase aggression, and through a variety of ways they can make you tougher. I love the psychology of fighting, and how mental states play into the game. By affecting these mental states, steroids take away one of the core pieces of true martial arts.

There's the risk of increased injury -- this is purely speculative, but still a legitimate concern.

Did I mention it's dumb to be the only legitimate sport that allows it? It would look so bad, it could kill MMA.
 
Oh yeah and I'm not buying the "less injuries" thing. Faster recovery from injuries, I buy. Less injuries I don't. In fact, steroids allow you to train more with less rest, which means more time spent training, which could mean a higher chance of injuries. On the flip side, of course, if you're recovering to brand new every day, maybe you don't have the fatigue/ailments that make actual injuries more likely, but we have no idea to what degree those things offset. It's total guesswork to say steroids = less injuries.

And rarely does a guy get injured in camp where steroids would allow him to still make the scheduled fight. Steroids can speed recovery, but they wouldn't prevent the cancellation of most of the fights scrapped from injuries.
 
Negative: Their use essentially makes widespread use mandatory.

Positive: They work.
 
Positive: Everyone's on it.

Negative: They pretend they aren't.

Gives a false illusion of kids coming through the ranks thinking natural talent is enough to reach the top.
 
Positive: they allow our favorite fighters to fight more frequently

Negative: they cause us to endure endless bitching from highlight reel victims like Michael Bisping.
 
Positive: They force the conversation of the inevitability of undetectable and/or no-side-effect PEDS.

Negative: It means a fighter broke rules they knowingly signed up for.
 
positive: everything
negative: possibility of abuse, which opens the possibility of cons
 
Positives: better health, faster healing, fewer events cancelled due to injury, better conditioned athletes, superfreak performances
Negatives: Someone might get their head punched clean off. Is that really a negative though?
 
Positive - Mega coin eg. Armstrong, Bonds, Silva

Negative - Getting caught
 
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