Cheaters Never Apologize: Moral Disengagment During Immoral Acts

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In 2009, Alex Rodriguez (since nicknamed "A-Roid") admitted to using performance enhancing drugs during the 2003 baseball season. This revelation followed on the heels of a federal investigation of steroid use in baseball, a tell-all book by Jose Canseco, in which he named several players he allegedly knew used steroids, and the federal bust of a laboratory in the Bay Area (BALCO) that supplied steroids to athletes.


In case you were wondering if cheating through taking banned substances is confined to baseball, it happens in many other sports. Professional cycling has had a long list of it's highest caliber cyclists banned or suspended from racing due to testing positive for performance enhancing drugs (the face of US cycling, Lance Armstrong continues to face international scrutiny for alleged performance enhancing drug use). Professional fighting has had a history of black eyes (pun definitely intended) from championship fights being tainted by steroid use. Most recently, in August of 2010 a mixed martial arts organization--the UFC-- held a middleweight championship fight that was tainted when contender Chael Sonnen tested positive for steroid use following his fight with champion Anderson Silva.

Perhaps you think cheating is the domain of professional athletes--whose youth and wealth mean poor decision-making? Well, you'd be wrong.  Read More->