Flutterby™! : Drugs in sport

Washington Post article on the enhancements in sport, and how banning performance enhancing drugs rewards the cheaters:

For Nick Bostrom, the lesson is, we should not create rules in sport regarding violations that may be undetectable and that cannot be enforced. "To do so would be to reward cheaters with unfair advantage," he says. Rules are fine as long as we can ensure openness and compliance. Bostrom is the director of the Oxford Future of Humanity Institute and a member of the philosophy faculty there.

Oddly, lots of great pull-quotes in there, but the overall article felt like it left something to be desired. I did like the part about drawing the lines between "natural" and synthetic hormones, and looking at where to draw the line on contact lenses.