Steroids should be legal in baseball

First I will rebutt your points and then move on to more of mine, I agree with you that that is the definition of steroids I am using, but instead of saying anabolic all the time I'm just going to say steroids. And my refute to your argument is that even if they think it's still a great risk people still do it. Is cheating a big risk? Yes, and still many people do it in all forms, maybe cheating off a test, stealing the answers, taking steroids always taking the risk because they think it's worth it for what they will achieve. Also you still haven't rebutted the part about the Regarding the ease by which one can obtain steroids, 17.0% of eighth graders, 27.7% of tenth graders, and 40.1% of twelfth graders surveyed in 2006 reported that steroids were "fairly easy" or "very easy" to obtain. You answered about the 12th graders but what about all the other grades. If you see even in 8th grade you can see people starting to get steroids and that early age. You exactly proved my point that athletes are taking it at their own risk just to become better, even going back to the first paragraph that people still do it despite the risk, so yes they would "Jump off a cliff into raging waters might be fun for some, but would you do it" in that concept just they're doing it to be better at baseball. You are right that this is not about the topic but it is point that steroids should be illegal in baseball but I brought it up because it would reduce the amount of steroids taken in general. This debate is not about that anabolic steroids healing a persons injury it is about whether steroids should be legal or not so like you said this is irrelevant to this debate. Also when you say "If it helps to speed up the recovery, and let them be playing sooner, then why shouldn't we allow steroids? " that's another case which would be arguing that we should allow steroids to speed up injury recovery. This debate is whether to make them legal to everyone or no one you can't just allow select few to speed up injuries because even if their injury is gone they will still get the part of the enhancement that others wouldn't. Now to a few of my points: Steroids should be made illegal just because it sucks when you know your favorite player who was doing the best and about to break the record is accused of taking steroids after a test. All that joy of watching him win, and break the record is gone when you know he cheated all along. Also this leads me to my second point Why do we have to think everyone is taking steroids when they are doing good? If people were just honest or even just not take steroids, we wouldn't have to accuse everyone about it. When someone hits 25 home runs a month and is consistently hitting well, suddenly he will have a test run over him because he must have been taking steroids when he might not have. So if steroids were gone forever we wouldn't have to accuse everyone. Also kids around the world would not be getting the wrong message from big league players. The Barry Bond's issue was all around the media, for example 3 LA Times newspaper in a row had Barry Bond's picture in the front and how he took steroids. Also it was all over the internet, and other sources so basically everyone knew about it. Especially kids who saw that he broke the home run record while taking steroids, which would give them a bad idea.