Okay can we finally put to rest all those people who try to formulate conspiracy theories that everyone's out to get Lance Armstrong?
Armstrong repeatedly doped alongside pretty much everyone in cycling and no nothing he did with regards to 'Livestrong' makes up in anyway for this cheating (I think he's an even bigger d-bag for continuing to elevate his profile by participating with this movement in light of his drug use). As for the 'why is Armstrong getting singled out harsher than the rest of the riders' BS copout arguement: He disproportionately gained from the cheating more than any of the other riders. Hence there should be larger punishments.
The only reason this has been drawn out over this many years is that so many people have been brainwashed by how much they were in love with the Armstrong myth that despite reason they still wanted to pretend that he was clean or that somehow the net result of it all was positive. Can those people please just get a grip on reality and move on?
At the end of the day I want my future children to live in a world where on the whole we at least give our best efforts at enforcing integrity and punish cheats when we find them as opposed to obfusify the truth or argue along alternate moral planes of existance because 'the story sounds better' or because 'everyone cheats anyway.'
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