Post #147690 by donhonyc on Fri, Mar 18, 2005 9:08 AM

On 2005-03-18 08:23, Tiki Rider wrote:
There may be alot more important issues but I can bet you that if you got school age kids that could be introduced to steroids or have died from steroid usage or are hooked on steroids its a pretty big deal.

Agreed Tiki Rider, but still I don't see the need for Congressional hearings. It seems as though the kid issue here is a sidebar to what is actually going on. These hearings appear to be geared towards 'outing' MLB players who have a history of taking steroids, and once again I say 'so what'. This is yet another public shaming that I could care less about. Call me a conspiracy freak, but is this not a convenient diversion from the real issues that are happening right now?

Here's a good way to get kids to not take steroids. Throw some nice 100% factual fear based media in front of them. If I can point to anything my high school or middle school did that worked, I would have to say that it was their anti-drug and anti-drunk driving programs. Real graphic, gorey horrifc stuff...photos and film from accident sites and coroner's offices that scared the bejeezuz out of most of us. I'm not saying it stopped all of us from actually doing drugs or drunk driving, but believe me...it made us think twice and saved us from further damaging ourselves.

[ Edited by: donhonyc on 2005-03-18 09:13 ]