PrepTest 86, Section 2, Question 13
Columnist: Banning performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) from sports will not stop their use. They provide too big a competitive advantage. And top athletes will do whatever it takes to gain a big competitive advantage. So PEDs should be allowed, but only if administered under a doctor's care to make sure they are taken only in safe doses. When handled in this fashion the health risks from PEDs disappear.
Columnist: Banning performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) from sports will not stop their use. They provide too big a competitive advantage. And top athletes will do whatever it takes to gain a big competitive advantage. So PEDs should be allowed, but only if administered under a doctor's care to make sure they are taken only in safe doses. When handled in this fashion the health risks from PEDs disappear.
Columnist: Banning performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) from sports will not stop their use. They provide too big a competitive advantage. And top athletes will do whatever it takes to gain a big competitive advantage. So PEDs should be allowed, but only if administered under a doctor's care to make sure they are taken only in safe doses. When handled in this fashion the health risks from PEDs disappear.
Columnist: Banning performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) from sports will not stop their use. They provide too big a competitive advantage. And top athletes will do whatever it takes to gain a big competitive advantage. So PEDs should be allowed, but only if administered under a doctor's care to make sure they are taken only in safe doses. When handled in this fashion the health risks from PEDs disappear.
Which one of the following is an assumption required by the columnist's argument?
Spectators would not lose respect for athletes who they know are taking PEDs.
PEDs would not improve the performance of some athletes more than others.
Athletes do not take PEDs thinking they help performance in cases in which they do not help.
Athletes currently using PEDs cannot find doctors willing to prescribe them.
Using PEDs at unsafe levels does not create a big competitive advantage over using them at safe levels.
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