Unequal advantage and baseball steroids
Tyler Kepner of the New York Times is apparently a The Public Philosopher reader. His news analysis today, “If Every Player Was Doping, Why Use Asterisks?”, riffs off the moral framework I discussed in my last post on the morality of brain-enhancing drugs (my analysis applies equally to performance enhancing drugs). As the title of his article implies, if everyone was using steroids, there is no issue of unequal advantage. The problem with his analysis is that it looks only at a single slice in time. If everyone was doping today, then my team’s win today may not based on unequal advantage. But baseball records are not usually a current time-slice issue: performance today is compared to performances of the past. If I’m using steroids today, maybe my home run total this season does deserve an asterisk next to Hank Aaron’s totals.
-Marc
Related posts:
- Steroids and the dangers of sports
- The morality of brain enhancing drugs
- A natural problem
- Casey at the battaca
- Hall of shame
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