Simon maintains that the strongest grounds for banning performance enhancing drugs is

Question

based on

a. applying current drug laws to everyone equally, and not making an exception for
athletes.
b. the fact that athletes are widely admired by children, and the use of drugs by athletes
is likely to cause harmful drug-abuse behavior in impressionable children.
c. the ideals of athletic competition.
d. the serious long-term physical and psychological harm caused by the use of such
drugs.
e. recognition of the fact that high-level athletic competition is at most only one brief
phase of an individual's life, but harms from drug use are often permanent.

Answer 1

c