Originally Posted by
Barry Shnikov
Yes. It would open up a vista of rather improbable super-humans, brought up (and possibly even bred) to maximise their sporting capabilities and ability to shrug off the negative effects of drugs and other medical procedures. Why shouldn't such athletes be surgically enhanced as well? You can imagine what US football would do if it were not inhibited in this way - they already look like freaks, some of them. Then all sport would be is a simple spectacle, like Roman circuses, rather than an opportunity to celebrate what the human body is capable of. The only thing stopping this is the general feeling that it wouldn't be right.
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