Hmm. Morals have nothing to do with it, as the law currently stands. You're purposely conflating a criminal issue with a 'moral' one. You let me know when the trafficking of the hormonal drugs you want is legal and we can stop the nugatory debating of morals. As it stands now, you're just a wordy criminal, like so many, a pious hypocrite.
Morals are irrelevant to someone like you because you are a secular atheist (redundancy intended). And you know I don't mean that as an insult as it is something you have made clear in the past. To me morals is everything and the guiding force of how I live my life. To distinguish between right and wrong, good and bad and to always strive to do what is right and good. That's why people like me cheered to high heaven when Ronald Reagan posed our war with Communism in moral terms by calling it an "evil" empire. And why guys like you shook their heads in disgust and disdain. But it fundamentally change the way we battled Communism as opposed to the appeasing, live and let live, wimpy Jimmy Carter strategy.
And for a literature professor I would expect you to be more adept at words, their meaning and how they are used. Rather than conflate I am making a clear distinction between what is moral and what is illegal and they are often two entirely different issues. Of course, in the US at least; buying, selling and using hormones without a prescription is illegal. A law that I consider wrong, unjust and a gross infringement on personal freedoms. And this is not the first time the government has committed these sins. Prohibition and Jim Crow laws come to mind. But though illegal I certainly don't consider using hormones immoral since it has zero impact on other people's lives and in the vast majority of cases a very positive impact on those who do. Conversely, just because something is immoral that does not mean to me that it should also be illegal. I consider adultery immoral but certainty wouldn't want to throw people in jail for cheating on their wives.
Now I hope I've made it abundantly clear that I place a clear distinction between the moral and the legal. But, at least to me, I find this statement far more disturbing:
"You let me know when the trafficking of the hormonal drugs you want is legal and we can stop the nugatory debating of morals."Now, unless I'm reading you wrong this would seem to imply to me that if the US government should suddenly declare the "trafficking of the hormonal drugs" legal then we have no problem. No debate is necessary. Everything would be OK? Is that what you are trying to say. That you derive your moral values, your notions of right and wrong, but what the government dictates? That the reason using hormones are wrong is not that there is anything inherent evil about that behavior but simply because the government said so?
And, seriously, if you feel that strongly about the use of hormones, and since this is a bodybuilding board which deals with a culture where such use is rampant, and you've admitted or at least strong suggested that your time spent under the barbell is quite limited, it does really beg the question: Why are you here? Could the rumors be true? That perhaps Basile is not the only one who especially appreciates photos of the "young lads."