1. In Peter F. Martin's article "Destroyed", Peter discusses the use of performance enhancers in professional sports; But instead of criminalizing the players for their harmful indulgences, He states that the athletes are victims to the steroids and its often life taking properties that should be helped. Although the public eye sees the use of these drugs as harmful to the sport, more attention should be paid to the harmful and often life taking side effects given to the players.2. Paragraph #10 reminds its audience that although performance enhancers threaten the fairness of the competition, It more importantly plays a large threat to the athletes themselves who make the games happen in the first place. 3. "Athletes are as free as other people to make mistakes and suffer the consequences; in short, they are humans like the rest of us. Or at least they were before they started juicing."(1). I found the ending to this article interesting as the author finalizes with a statement that sounds rhetorical in its nature.
(1) Martin, Peter F. "Destroyed", The Bedford Reader, Boston, New York 2012.
