From: natashavita@earthlink.net
Date: Fri Aug 25 2000 - 10:47:19 MDT
Robert-Coyote wrote on
Thu, 24 Aug 2000 18:06:18 GMT
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>Any anabolic substances that promote extreme thickness of muscles
may/will be threatened to be made illegal, we have a serious
anti-metahuman bias here..
http://www.senate.gov/~commerce/hearings/1020mcc.pdf<
This is an excellent example of how enhancing the body could
become a legal battle when the world-wide interests of society
along with enormous amounts of money are invested in the business
of the human body and its physical capabilities under the umbrella
of sports.
The issue of where or not an athlete's enhancing her or his body
while competing is a very involved issue. What is enhancing?
If a person performs TM (meditation for lowering he heart rate)
prior to a competition is that person enhancing his/her body?
What about an athlete who wears contacts, or puts extra padding
in his sneakers? Such are very mundane enhancements, but enhancements
are relative. What about the athlete who takes HRT or the diabetic
who needs medication, the long distance jumper who wears knee
pads, or the swimmer who wears a suit that glides through the
water without friction.
The Olympic council will work around enhancing supplements and
augmentations as the years unfold. I envision a time when the
Universal Olympics will be held off-planet and the athletes,
human and transhuman, will be poster entities for body replacement
parts, upgrades and advanced prosthetics.
But, getting back to this article, there is a part of me that
understands why this is such a strong issue. Yesterday at Gold's
Gym I saw several human bodies that looked very steroid induced.
While it wasn't particularly attractive to me, the few I saw
thought they looked pretty darn good. Should steriod bodies
compete with non-steriod bodies? Common sense would deem it
an imbalance, and for good reason. It would be more balanced
if they competed with others who were taking the same enhancing
substances and make this a separate event.
The future Olympics will be different and more varied. There
is no way that in the year 2030 that the Olympics will be solely
and exclusively for biological humans.
Natasha
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