Not a special snowflake at all. That’s what your emotions force you to assume. Just interested in reality, that’s all.
You’re a walking and talking and posting contradiction, aren’t ya? You said there are inherent distinctions now you’re saying there aren’t. Next thing is you’re gonna say there are. Then say there aren’t. And so on ad infinitum.
You’re very indignant too. Quite a bit of a victim and a victim sympathizer, aren’t you? Life must be very hard.
Most abilities are learned . . . great stuff. Can a domestic cat learn to be a lion? Or an ape learn to be a human? Why not? You said “most abilities” are learned. Oh, those are not among the most?
You must be a believer in infinites then. Because given “infinite amount of time” which is to say “given sufficient amount of time” anyone can become anything.
But who gives a fuck about that when life is finite?
There are limits to everything. Including limits.
There is such a thing as rate at which a trait is developed and this is different for everyone and it is different for every single trait within a single organism.
You must be very naive to think that anyone can become Usain Bolt given similar circumstances. Usain Bolt must be special, not because of his past (genetics/nature), but because of the circumstances in which he was raised (education/nurture.)
Note that I am not denying the value of nurture. American Africans are better at basketball than African Africans precisely because of better circumstances (because they were enslaved whereas the latter were not lol.) But that does not mean that genetics play no part. Whites can never compete with Blacks in basketball. Nurture can’t change that.