Allanfan20 wrote:sidsanders wrote:Sambakick wrote:The morality in our culture of out of whack. If you agree a woman has the right to her body who the hell are you to limit what someone does to their mind?
he signed a contract which is subject to the cba which outlines things a player cannot ingest (among other things). this was not hidden terms or some other giant wall of text to read and he missed it.
I think he’s saying how it’s f’ed up that we say a women has a right to her body but we often villianize people who do drugs.
I agree with what you said though despite the fact that I feel for people with addictions. They should still pay for the mistakes they make.
the drug angle to me has more potential impacts to the general public, and in the case of pro sports the potential lost revenue from negative info/loss of reputation. based on the nba cba, if he had a problem, he could have voluntarily entered into treatment programs and avoided being dismissed.
Players can come forward voluntarily for a problem involving the use of a drug of abuse or marijuana (but not SPEDs). A player who comes forward voluntarily will enter the appropriate education, treatment and counseling program, and will not be penalized for coming forward (although he may be penalized for failure to comply with his program or for advancing a stage under stage two of the Drugs of Abuse program).
for sure folks will struggle to admit they have a problem. he did appear to have some avenues to avoid this and did not. i suspect there are quite a few who would like treatment for various addictions and do not have the means or options like he did to get that help.
