WOULD YOU ROB A BANK IF IT MEANT NOT BEING IN POVERTY?
This is a question that goes right to the heart of our moral and human centers. Using PED's is a cheat, and cowardly route to getting what you want, and is NO DIFFERENT than being a thief, on a grand scale if you are a professional athlete.
If you aren't a professional athlete, it is not the same, it is to that person's own detriment if they suffer health consequences from using them but otherwise there isn't really a victim.
But in sports, there are MANY victims. You cheat your fellow athletes out of victory, out of money, out of sponsorship opportunities, out of records even if you are beating others who are playing by the rules. You are defrauding your sponsors by completing your work using illegal methods. You cheat and defraud the fans who pay money to come to the meets, and support their favorite athletes who they believe are honest. It has NOTHING to do with whether they work hard or not.
You think successful criminals are often stupid? NO, many are often very capable and intelligent, hard working. Hard working enough to figure out how to scheme theuir way to money and riches. Hard working enough to keep up a massive charade for years, and trick many people into thinking that somehow THEY are the victim when people say "cheater". People like Floyd Landis for example, write books feigning innocence, and pleading for financial support in their defense. People like Marion Jones write books doing the same thing, feigning ignorance and innocence and then pretending to be some goodwill ambassador for the sake of children while still perepetuating all the BS.
People that answer yes if they were a pro athlete and would use PEDs and cheat, are the very reason it continues, because you seem incapable of connecting the dots that you are corrupting and cheating many honest people out of what they have rightly earned by your myopic view and your planet-sized egos.