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supplements 10-Jun-2005 At 6:43:03 PM Mung

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Steph, I've got to say I share your view point, though maybe I can give it a different slant (and before everybody starts to nastily call me a Puritan, I'M NOT! I'm a libertarian humanist!) I don't think climbers who use supplements will run into these kind of problems, because usually their aim is not to bulk up and look huge, but most importantly because they're not surrounded by the Supplement Culture which occurs in gyms, is very cleverly marketed by the supplement companies in magazines and 'health food stores' but most effectively by word of mouth and preying on men's insecurities about their body.
Most of them aren't physically harmful, but I've seen people getting to a position where psychologically, they NEED to spend $200 on a months' course of arginine because it's the only thing that will make their muscles bigger. That's their choice - in my opinion, a silly one. But my opinion doesn't matter - like Take! says, they'll probably just look back in a few years and feel silly.
But saying somebody's argument is 'stupid' and 'baseless' is not only offensive, lacking in any form of argument or wit, but also in this case NOT TRUE (as described above) and also, in my opinion, not really within the spirit of this forum.
Calling somebody a puritan is Nasty.