Should doping be a free-for-all? Australian philosophers Robert Sparrow and Julian Savulescu debate over whether or not doping should be allowed in sports for a piece published by Nautilus. “We should drop this criterion of banning something because it’s performance-enhancing. It’s complete nonsense. Sport is about performance-enhancement,” says Savulescu. Whereas his counterpart, Sparrow, responds, “We have to understand that people who’ve dedicated their lives to these achievements are quite vulnerable. Having a set of rules that makes it more plausible for them to damage themselves is bad public policy.” An engaging read, the discussion between the two thinkers goes on to discuss myriad related topics such as whether women with more testosterone should be allowed to compete or if swimmers born with webbed fingers have an unfair advantage. The likes of Maria Sharapov, particularly, would probably be happy with Savulescu’s more progressive arguments, as he believes in relaxing the rules: “We are our own masters, and that includes deciding what kind of physiology, what kind of mental determination we have. In my view, it’s a part of human evolution to enhance our performance in those ways.”