2013 MLB Hall of Fame Screechfest

Are they morally excused by the fact that the U.S. government - or at least the military - could be said to have actively condoned or encouraged atrocities in that conflict?

 

What is your opinion of slave owners in the antebellum South?

 

Oy.

Terrible parallels, every one.

 

Not terrible. Not at all. Difference in degree.

I'm asking you for a moment to assume, for the sake of argument, that PEDs are morally and/or ethically wrong. There is an argument that they aren't, of course. But proceed from a place where they are morally or ethically wrong.

Then the parallels are not terrible at all, and no "oy" necessary.

 

Terrible. Even as a rhetorical device. Even as a reductio ad absurdum gambit. Terrible. Every one.

 

No.

 

Analogous.

 

Not even.

 

For someone claiming not to be a moralist, Dick's sure making moralist arguments

 

But your self-assuredness on the issue tells me that you should have trouble explaining why they aren't analogous.

Show, don't tell.

 

I'm not afraid to at least explore it, no.

I certainly don't love the alternative: Anything goes.

 

Steroids do not equal torture, killing and slavery. In any way (even moralistically)