Luke Thomas

Kids in high school is an absolute non-starter, 0%.

I mean, never going to be allowed, ever not.

And I would say, do I think it's a good idea for 19-year-old men, or whatever you want to call them, boys, men, whatever, do I think it's a good idea for them to be taking performance-sensing drugs?

I don't.

But if you want to compete in elite pro sports, there is some level of inevitability around these questions.

So what should the rules be?

The rule should be what the league and the players agree is a reasonable framework.

And what they tend to do is put in protections, some punishments, you know, some banishment, some things they can do to, you know, limit this testing or whatnot.

And then they just let it rock and nobody seems to care.

I don't know why that's supposed to be a scandal.

It's not.

Brother, it's not to say there's no value to testing.

There's value to testing.

It's not to say that there's no value to some prohibitions.

There is value to some prohibitions, and some work better than others.

But these systems can all be cheated.

The question is, what kind of effort are you going to put in to stamp it out?

And every time you see a super hardcore zealous person

effort to stamp it out, innocent people get hurt.

You cannot ethically justify a system where you have to invade the rights of privacy of athletes and hurt innocent athletes en route to your goal.