Thoughts on seeing Roger Clemens indicted, though I dont really follow professional baseball

Performance Enhancement. Does anyone else notice the emerging double standard between the required total abstinence of athletes and the rest of the culture?  When just about everyone is getting some kind of work done, athletes are facing not only legal troubles for doping up, but the increasing pressure of cultural acceptance of enhancements of every sort.

And we are all competing, aren't we?  Just not professionally.  Young girls are competing for the attention of men, and they are spending zillions on breast implants, tans, nose jobs, jaw modifications, artificial dimples, and even Botox, according to this article.  School children are increasingly taking Ridilin, mood enhancers, and mental stimulants to perform in school.  Adults are taking the same drugs in ever increasing numbers, and getting the same body-altering procedures.

Roger Clemens must be thinking about now, as he considers his indictments by Congress for doping and lying about it, "Why not?  Enhancement is accepted at other common levels of society.  Why not athletics?"

Is it because of concern for fairness in the competition?  Maybe (then why not just let all athletes use steroids?)  Is it because steroids are unhealthy?  We're supposed to say yes, and they are but that's not the reason.

Is it because of a desire for pure man vs. man contest, pitting the highest against each other?  let the best man win?  test man's unassisted aptitude, that the winner may know the glory of his achievement, that the crowds may be inspired by the virtue and strength of humanity? What a piece of work is man, How noble in reason, and all that?  that the culture may be lifted up as they behold greatness?  I hope so.

But America is currently double-minded about drugs.  Legalize them?  or keep fighting them?  As attitudes continue to grow lax towards drugs, the issue of athletic steroids will become more and more tiresome.