So you have to use the juice cause your body can't hack it on its own, correct?
That's a little simplistic and here is where the supposed cheating comes in. Everyone knows about genetic potential , but I suppose some of us believe we should walk around our entire life hindered by it.
Try looking at it from this perspective. You have 2 beginning bodybuilder want to be's with approximately 15 inch arms. One of them has been reading all of the routines in the muscle mags and starts working out using a basic routine from what he has been reading and 6 months later his arms measure 15 and a half inches. The other one doesn't know crap about lifting and his idea of a workout is doing dumbell curls (nothing else) in his bedroom 3 times a week, but after 6 months of working out, his arms measure 16 and a half inches.
What have we just discovered? Even though the second guy doesn't know anything about lifting weights, he obviously had better genetics to build muscle than the first guy. Testosterone (natural levels) in men can vary from 300 to 1000 nanograms per deciliter of blood, or 220 to 880 depending on whose scale you are using. Additionally, if we could disect two peoples muscles, 1cc from one man may have 200 cells for growth while the second may only have 150. The greater number of cells you have, the bigger your muscles can get. Then you also have to consider fast twith to slow twitch ratios.
The point being here, that in this case adding steroids to the mix for bodybuilder number one only makes him equal to bodybuilder number two. It isn't giving him an unfair advantage. Life has already done that through genetics. Steroids only make this an even playing field for him.
Your statement "your body can't hack it on its own" once again makes a judgement that the first man is sub par. That there is something wrong with him. There is nothing wrong with him. He just was not born with the genetic potential of the second guy. We know about genetic differences and genetic potential, but we still don't acknowledge that it is real. The same genetic potential can be apllied to intelligence and learning. Why is Bill Gates smart enough to have developed computer software, but you or I or our best friends didn't. Are we sub par? Our brains "can't hack it on it's own"?
NO. It's just all part of being different as human beings.
In the case of muscle building, we already have something that levels the playing field. In the case of intelligence, science is developing nootropics to increase our memory and intelligence. If they ever perfect them, will we be considered cheating if we use them to breeze through college the way some of our classmates did. Everyone remembers someone back in school who just seemed to show up at school and absorb knowledge without ever studying.
So let's apply the original question another way.
If you were using nootropics to make learning in school a breeze, would you quit just to show you are psychologically strong enough to do it?
Does anyone else the the judgement built into this type of question?
Okay, I've said all of that to say this. If I have found a substance that helps me to be EQUAL with those who were born with better genetics than I, is there a reason I should quit using them?
I mean a good reason. Other than the fact that some very short sighted people might judge me as being psychologically addicted or think I'm cheating because this comes naturally to them.