I also read about Lance Armstrong today. Apparently there is more evidence surfacing regarding his performance enhancing drug usage. Yeah, whoopee. Of course he doped. Everyone doped in the field of elite cycling. They still probably do, at least to whatever extent that they still can. This is reality. Prosecuting Lance Armstrong will not change that reality. Prosecuting all the dopers that he beat back in the day will not change that reality. So why spend millions to prosecute him for whatever incidental crimes that may have been committed as a consequence of his doping? How does that help society??
I have a solution. Let’s take all these millions that we are inevitably going to spend to publically humiliate all these athletes – and lord knows there are more to come – and spend them on logical and ethical anti-doping research and development efforts?
