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Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr
It doesn't matter if steroids helped or not. The issue isn't the value of PED's. The issue is it was against the rules. Fans who want to put known, emphasis, known PED users into the HOF encourage cheating. Let's make the politician prez when he stuffs the ballot box. Let's make the student who steals the answers to the tests valedictorian. Let's give the insider trader a tax break.
You don't reward cheaters. You don't honor them. Yeah, society makes a special room for them. It's called jail. The benefits, perceived or real, is irrelevant to the HOF if it is to remain an honor.
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I agree with you 100% that cheating should not be allowed nor rewarded.
The questions that I wrestle with are these: If "everyone is doing it" and "it's always been there" how do we know who should or should not be punished? Should everyone be punished wholesale? Should only those who rise above the rest be punished as representatives for the whole? Should no one be punished since "everyone is doing it" and "it's always been there" and therefore everyone is on "equal footing"? What about all of the unknown cheaters? Should only those who get caught, who are known, be punished?
I think these questions are what it boils down to. Not is it wrong or is it right to cheat. I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone argue that cheating is okay.