humanity 2.0: a current ethical challenge for anti-doping
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2016HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
“We don’t know yet whether this has been done anywhere, but…it will be used sometime”
Carl Johan Sundberg, Karolinska, WADA gene doping panel
“From my own work with the mice, I also know that earlier you intervene, the better off you're going to be when you get old. So once you go down that path, I think it's unethical to withhold from someone something that would actually allow their muscles to be much healthier now and to the future. As long as there's no safety risk, I don't see why athletes should be punished because they're athletes. So I'm on the other side of the fence from Wada on this one, even though we're on the same team right now”
Lee Sweeney, Jan 2014
2017CONCLUSION: THE DILEMMA
How can anti-doping protect its social mandate, when human enhancement is allowing the general public to become more capable of performing acts of physical
endeavour than the anti-doping compliant athlete?