I think if they stopped making PEDs so taboo and just accepted them as the progress of modern medicine that they are we could stop bashing them. If you want the big money and want to be the absolute best athlete you can be, PEDs are part of the deal. No different of a drug than any other, they have an upside and side effects. It's nothing new either, top athletes have been using for generations now.
But also I agree with you, there are plenty of other people that children should look up to.