Zitat von dude

"A few months back I stumbled upon a scientific survey of athletes’ beliefs and attitudes regarding performance-enhancing drug use. It reported a strong correlation between the individual athlete’s perceived prevalence of doping and the likelihood that the same athlete doped himself. In other words, if the athlete believed that “everybody’s doing it”, then he was very likely to belong to “everybody”.

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I am annoyed by, and feel a bit sorry for, those who say that “everyone is doing it”. I want to point out to them that they should understand that this belief says more about themselves than it does about what is really going on in professional sports. I want to say, “I am sorry to learn that you would cheat if you were a professional athlete because you had a bad mother.”

The trouble with allowing childhood wounds to govern your belief structures is that you wind up thinking like a child, or worse: an idiot. Next time I hear someone say “everyone’s doping” I think I will ask this person if he would dope if he were a professional athlete. Supposing this person answers no, I will say, “Interesting. So every single one of the thousands of athletes at the world-class level is unethical, and yet ethical people like you clearly exist, and amazingly, not a single one of the ethical people like you has the athletic talent to even be in position to prove his high moral standards. Do you suppose there is an absolute genetic link between world-class athletic potential and low moral standards?” Idiocy exposed."

http://mattfitzgerald.org/blog/?p=295