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Here’s a little statistic published in 1998 in The Economist that I use in my Ethics class at DePaul. According to the article, “Superhuman Heroes,” a survey of 198 top athletes conducted in 1995 had more than 50% stating that they would be willing to take a drug that would help them win every competition in a five year period, EVEN…if they knew it would kill them at the end of five years. Now, there’s worship of Baal, the god of success. What would YOU do for that Klondike bar of success?

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