Some argue that performance enhancing drugs should be prohibited because they may

cause harm to the athletes who use them. Robert Simon

a. maintains that ultimately that is the best grounds for prohibiting the use of
performance enhancing drugs.
b. rejects that argument as too paternalistic.
c. argues that there is no proof that such drugs harm the user.
d. believes that is a good reason to ban the use of performance enhancing drugs, but not
the strongest reason.
e. maintains that the benefits outweigh the harms.


b

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