Why are people so much in denial about genetics?

Sadly, genetics are a very important thing. Even sadder, genetics is what largerly determines how long one will live and how much they are vulnerable to diseases. If they have a healthy life style, but bad genetics, their life style won't save them.

But I don't agree about "what you look like is 100% genetics". It's obvious that one can radically change their appearence using various means like plastic surgery, &c.

Pretty much. They might be important in determining some things, but everything to be tied to them? I find that questionable at the very least.

Having observed the bodybuilding world for decades, there are just tons and tons of examples of this. It's rampant. The line usually goes something like this: "People who claim they don't have the genes to get big are just lazy bro. Just work harder and buy my special e-book to learn the secrets of how to get BIG!!!"

The main reason that people in this industry espouse that rhetoric comes down to money. They are trying to sell you something, and they don't give a fuck whether you live, die, or something in between as long as they make their living off of you buying some potentially harmful training program filled with zany new exercises that don't work as well as the tried and true lifts from 100 years ago, or some fart powder or other useless supplement that you'll just end up pissing out.

The only supplements that work aren't classed as supplements at all. They are classed as drugs. They fall under the category of Performance-Enhancing Drugs, or PEDs, like anabolic steroids, insulin, and cutting agents. These things work, but not without massive side effects. And in the end, even with those powerful drugs you cannot go beyond a certain point, and that point is determined by guess what......your genes! You'll never be the bodybuilder that Arnold or Ronnie Coleman or Jay Cutler or Dorian Yates was, even with all the drugs in the world, because you don't have their genetic base.

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Genetics aside, talking about this "you can do everything" mentality, that one is getting more and more annoying. It's always good to push your limits to see what you're truly capable of, but people really should accept when something is beyond them. A little realism really doesn't hurt, but this folk will probably just tell you "you're just lazy and hate effort" (I'm hearing this on almost a daily basis, some people really never learn...). No, if you're terrible at something no matter what you do, then leave it and face reality.

Reminds me of what LaVey said once, perhaps man is indeed the only animal that can lie to himself and actually believe it.

Ooh boy, you guys if you haven't hated me already, you SURE will now!

Because, it is I! Who likes to say, that genetics aren't to blame! Of course, I know, genetics are important, this and that, but, at the same time, kinda not. Its good for groundwork, for the base work, like: You can do this, you can do that, you can't do this, you can't do that, your task is to: survive.

Now, before you guys reach for the report button, and before I get banned for being a stupid fuck, lemme tell you what I think:

To say that genetics would dictate everything you do or are to be blamed on everything that ever happens to you and what you do, is, to me, stupid. Mostly because, when I was a fat boi, I used that excuse a lot. I now use the "genetics" as mostly as motivation for losing weight, because its a thing within my bloodline to catch diabetes more easily (by a little margin) than other people, and losing weight/being careful will help a lot with all the "don't catch the bad thing" game. Nonetheless, isn't genetics the last thing on the list you would put a blame on for stuff happening?

I don't think the mindset behind "You can do everything" doesn't necessarily mean "Genetics are a hoax lul", it mostly has to do with tons of other things first. Like, I dunno, motivation, perhaps, external circumstances at most. But most of it stems from the basic element of human nature: curiosity and the ever-evolving question of "How do you know what will happen unless you try?". It's how we survived in the past, lol. Now we have the advantage of modern medicine telling us what each and every human is allergic to, sparing 80% of the population the suffering one would go through just by, lets say, sampling a peanut.

But that really isn't it. There is more to this mindset than it meets the eye. I am no psychology expert, but I can surely say it has quite a lot of positive effect on people. How would you feel knowing that you won't run nearly as fast as your neighbor? How do you feel knowing you will have memory issues when you grow old? How do you feel knowing you are going to catch diabetes by the time you reach 50? Like, no matter what you do, no matter what you say, this shit will happen to you.

Feels shitty doesn't it?

Not only that, but we humans, we like to fight, we like to say "Screw you destiny!" and we would work towards averting such fate no matter what. So, then, not only we would dread such days, we would purposefully leave ourselves out of experiences and things that happen in real life in a attempt to avert the coming of such days. We would live like monks, praying for deliverance, for salvation, because, there is hope. We may say "Okay, I accept that", but how much of that would remain truth after a while? You say you would accept it, but deep down, you know you wouldn't. You would fight it, with tears or fists, you don't want to be limited, you don't want to be trapped, within your own body. You are it's pilot, and fuck whoever told you you are going to die at 87.

So, all in all, a shitty experience right?

Why don't we just skip that all? I mean, how would we know this and that would happen by the time it gets there, without trying it, without living it? Deeper research, I hear? Educating the masses, I hear? Fuck, I will close my ears, then. It's a waste of air. How will we know a train would arrive by it's designated time? We never surely know, unless we are the one riding it, and we are the one doing the math, but still, even then, we don't know.

I'm dipping into philosophy here, but basically my point: It's good to have an "optimistic" viewpoint like that one. You guys might not need it, but, oh boy, some people desperately need one. I see people giving up from various shit because they can't do one or two things, how would blaming it all on genetics help them? Yes, I hear you say "Then they are weak and pathetic fools", but, haven't we all been at that stage where giving up seemed so sweet and finding an excuse was a lifetime goal? Look at where you are now. Heck, how many successful people wouldn't have even made it into history if they adopted such a pessimistic mindset. Only people who did were, ironically, poets

And now you can get me banned because my very presence here threatens the fabric of the universe bla bla bla

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If you are so convinced that genetics aren't vital for success in life, then how do you explain the fallowing:

1. There are virtually no programmers with below average IQ.
2. All fitness models and bodybuilders have similar skeleton structures.
3. Ditto for athletes except that what kind of bones work best varies depending on the sport.

Yes I know the IQ doesn't matter equally for all types of jobs and that there is more to intelligence than just IQ, since IQ tests really only test math ability and the ability to locate patterns, but for many jobs such as programming those traits are very useful. And research has shown that IQ remains pretty much the same across your whole life.