Doping has been in cycling since the start and it's dangers are obvious from the Simpson tragedy...and that should be reason enough to do everything possible to get rid of it. If a cyclist is doping on their own then I feel it's a lower level offense than team management coercing riders to dope. If the doping results in death one might be classed as suicide and the other as manslaughter. The rash of cyclists that died in the early 1990s could have been criminal if they were encouraged to overdose on EPO by team doctors and managers.
If Armstrong had come forward with the rest of US Postal he might still have those TDF victories, but I suspect he didn't because the doping is the least of the crimes. He wanted to avoid being under oath and has admitted the least possible. He could throw UCI etc under the bus, but he'd have to throw himself under the same bus too.
purgatory isn't under the bus?