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The author concludes that athletes’ use of nonaddictive drugs should not be banned. As support, the author claims that almost everything in sports is unnatural (and that many things are permitted despite being unnatural). The author also says that focus should be on more serious issues in sports that result in deaths and injuries instead of focusing on banning nonaddictive drugs because they are unnatural.
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The author's entire response to the purists rests on this principle. Running shoes, boxing gloves, and bodybuilding machines are all unnatural, and none are banned for it. The author treats these examples as proof that being unnatural, by itself, isn't a good enough reason to prohibit something. That's exactly what (A) says.
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The author never claims nonaddictive drugs are natural. The argument is that even if they are unnatural, that's not a sufficient reason to ban them. The list of unnatural things in sports (shoes, gloves, machines) is meant to show that "unnatural" doesn't justify a ban, not that drugs aren't unnatural.
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The author says addictive drugs should be banned because they're physically harmful, not because they're unnatural. The author is the one arguing against using "unnatural" as a basis for prohibition.
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The author mentions "far more serious problems" in modern sports that cause unnecessary deaths and injuries but never identifies what those problems are. They could be concussions, overtraining, unsafe facilities, or anything else. We can't infer that addictive drugs are among them.
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The "far more serious problems" are compared to the debate over nonaddictive drugs, not to addictive drug use. The author is saying the nonaddictive drug question is less important than these other problems. Nothing in the stimulus ranks addictive drug use against unnecessary injuries.
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