Drugs in Sport — Just Say “Yes!”

Once again the use of performance enhancing substances have made the news, this time with the finger again pointed at the Russians, accusing them of “state sponsored cheating”.

This issue intersects with core beliefs Transhumanism:

  • The right to use technology to enhance human performance in all spheres of endeavor
  • The right of “morphological freedom” — that is to choose our own bodily form
  • The right of individuals to have autonomy over their own bodies

We naturally question the reason why various sports bodies consider the use some techniques to be off limits and “cheating”.

It has been said that if you want to be an athlete, choose your parents wisely! This reflects the importance of the genetic advantage superior athletes have over ordinary people. That is, Olympic athletes are already “Nature’s cheats” because they have what we consider to be an arbitrary and unfair advantage from the moment they are born. What these allegedly illegitimate enhancement techniques are really doing is leveling the playing field (a very apt metaphor) by removing some of that advantage.

The banned techniques most familiar are performance enhancing drugs, but there are others which, if not banned at present, will be if tests can be devised.

Ironically one of the most likely enhancers goes under the name of “gene doping”, where an athlete upgrades their DNA to be more like their “natural superiors” [… and this is “cheating”?]

Another, is blood banking where the athlete stores their own blood and then before competition augments their natural supply to enhance the body’s Oxygen carrying capacity. Which mimics a particular type of natural genetic mutation.

We could go on, but you get the idea.

Our solution is to set up a separate category of athletics competition which would be the “Unlimited” class. Here athletes over the age of 18 would be permitted to use any internalized enhancement technology — whether drugs, genetic engineering, blood doping, surgical or mind enhancing via electronics.

Naturally there would be a certain responsibility to monitor the health of the athlete when these are use, but we are talking about adults making adult decisions about what they wish to do to themselves.

So, we suggest that maybe the Russians ought to see their current bans as an opportunity to be exploited in a new sporting frontier — the ultimate in Extreme Sports. Let’s turn man into superman and woman into superwoman, and maybe learn something of use by ordinary people to enrich our lives.

Hello Mr Putin…

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