Maybe the kid had other problems. Maybe the press will sensationalize it. But blame goes elsewhere, and we need only to look around us to find it.
I've been involved in this sport a long time and I've been very vocal in the benefits of AS and the disgrace of their criminalization. But I can say with all certainty that within the last five or six years the use of AS has become an epidemic -- not so much in the amount of people taking them, but the amounts which people are taking. Dare I say, it's drug addiction, plain and simple. And many of the people reading this post are in that catagory.
The tragic irony here is that we all want to be accepted for our choices. We feel that it's a civil right to do what we wish with our bodies and the stigma of steroids is a hysterical fear tactic perpetuated by a feckless and uniformed media. But in reality, if we are ever to be accepted, or in the least, tolerated, our argument must be sane and cogent. We must prove the detractors wrong. But every day, we prove them right.
The quest for more and more size has become a crazed obsession. People distort their bodies into freakish hulls. Women morph their very gender. Children die.
Shakesphere said: "Our fate is not in the stars, but in ourselves." The answer is obvious but the path toward redemtion is clutterd with confusion, and rationalizations, and bravado, and fear. No one wants to admt the bell tolls for thee.
There's an old saying: "The world will only cry with you for only one day." So today on this board we mourn the loss of a life yet begun. Yet, I have no doubt, tomorrow the topics will be insulin, DNP, Bromo and mixing up cow medicine in your sink and injecting it into your bloodstream. Then before long, another post: Friend of mine, ripped and huge...dead. And again we'll cry. And again, deny.
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