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Message: [QUOTE="Renegade, post: 2518918, member: 1928"] I've thought about that, but do we really wanna be watching athletes drop dead midway through an event? Given half a chance these guys would pump themselves full of so many drugs that their heart would explode. I remember reading something that perhaps SI did, or a similar publication, and they asked athletes, anonymously of course, that if they could take a drug that would make them the kings/queens of their sport, but had a greater than 50% chance of dying before they hit 45, I think all of them said yeah **** it, I'd do it. but yeah, for the sheer audaciousness of people breaking the 100m record in like 8 seconds or something jaw-droppingly spectacular, it would be cool - but would we really enjoy it? I don't think we would; we celebrate achievements imo because they're done by real people, like you and I. Yeah it's not the [I]exact[/I] same, but we're close enough to be able to relate and revel in human achievement. If you take the human part out of it by letting them become as warped and non-human as possible, where's the connection? Put it this way, would you feel the same way about 8 metallic robots all striding against one another? It would be interesting but you probably wouldn't cheer for one, ie, make that personal connection. [/QUOTE]

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