The fuck is wrong with him!?! Even if we had advanced cybernetics or could grow body parts, I wouldn't be chopping off parts of my body just to skip injury time.
Is this an Australia thing as I remembered how they tried to pressure Novac to take the vaccine to play and he refused siting he'd rather wait to get the title and record than risk his body to do so. He was at least foreign so could escape the prison colony so I can't imagine the pressure domestic athletes are under who have no escape.
They did a survey of Olympic athletes back in the 2010s asking if they would take a pill that guaranteed them a gold medal in their event, but would kill them in four years.
That's one hell of an unhealthy obsession. Dying for some silly status symbol. It's not like they saved their people, or developped a cure for some disease. Nope, bragging rights and a shiny medal.
Wait till they figure they all take the same pills and only one gets gold but they die 4 years later anyway.
The fuck is wrong with him!?! Even if we had advanced cybernetics or could grow body parts, I wouldn't be chopping off parts of my body just to skip injury time.
Is this an Australia thing as I remembered how they tried to pressure Novac to take the vaccine to play and he refused siting he'd rather wait to get the title and record than risk his body to do so. He was at least foreign so could escape the prison colony so I can't imagine the pressure domestic athletes are under who have no escape.
They did a survey of Olympic athletes back in the 2010s asking if they would take a pill that guaranteed them a gold medal in their event, but would kill them in four years.
Like 90% said yes.
That's one hell of an unhealthy obsession. Dying for some silly status symbol. It's not like they saved their people, or developped a cure for some disease. Nope, bragging rights and a shiny medal.
Wait till they figure they all take the same pills and only one gets gold but they die 4 years later anyway.
It's not about "bragging rights" it's about the culmination of their career. Proof that they worked the hardest and are the best at what they do.
It's the same motivation for people who end up curing disease, they worked the hardest and are the best at what they do.
What they do is the only difference.
Except if they're just taking a pill to get a gold, then it isn't about hard work, it's just about the medal.