For doctors, brain drugs → knowledge → saving lives.
For athletes, body drugs → strength → showing off.
"Showing off" isn't really something we require much of in society, or see as a moral good (however entertaining we happen to find it when it is done well.) "Saving lives" is something we want to happen as much as possible, to the point that we might be willing to ask the people doing so to harm themselves a bit to get it done.
A better comparison to doctors might be, say, firefighters: body drugs → strength → saving lives.
Would it make sense for a firefighter to take anabolic steroids if it increased the maximum weight they could lift-and-carry out of a burning building? I don't know. I don't think there's an automatic answer to that.
For doctors, brain drugs → knowledge → saving lives.
For athletes, body drugs → strength → showing off.
"Showing off" isn't really something we require much of in society, or see as a moral good (however entertaining we happen to find it when it is done well.) "Saving lives" is something we want to happen as much as possible, to the point that we might be willing to ask the people doing so to harm themselves a bit to get it done.
A better comparison to doctors might be, say, firefighters: body drugs → strength → saving lives.
Would it make sense for a firefighter to take anabolic steroids if it increased the maximum weight they could lift-and-carry out of a burning building? I don't know. I don't think there's an automatic answer to that.