Joseph Laungayan
Melinda Schroeder
Destroyed Review Blog 1
The article Destroyed, by Peter F. Martin, is about
the use of performance enhancing drugs within professional sports. The author
feels that using performance enhancing drugs or any “Extra human objects” (Martin)
ruins the purity of the sport. He uses examples from the ancient Olympians to
support his views against artificial enhancers.
Paragraph ten of Destroyed talks about how performance
enhancers have ruined not only the sport that were passed down from the Greeks,
but also the physical wellbeing of the athletes themselves.
Martin states that fans
of athletes have made a sport out of guessing who is using drugs to enhance their
performance and who is not because the use of these drugs has crept into every
sport. I thought that this statement was
funny and sad at the same time. One
because it is so ridiculous that people bet on the fate of a player and two
because it is sad that fans have lost their faith in their athletic
heroes. To me this just shows how
physical enhancers have become another part of sports as we know it today. It is conceivable that one day it will become
the norm for every athlete to enhance themselves physically in one way or
another. Besides the lasting effects on
the health of the athletes themselves, I personally find nothing wrong with
wanting to enhance yourself to be the best you can. However, everyone should have an equal
opportunity to enhance themselves.
