@Davy0 No, you don't understand. It doesn't matter if they were humans before, they did ascend to godhood. They are gods now. I understand when you meant Hercules was a "demi-god" but that's only by the fact, by lore, he is the son of Zeus and the human Alcmene, but in this instance, he literally did ascend to becoming a god. Same for Buddha, who even by lore has become a god. I seriously don't know what you're arguing this for. Are you saying, despite all the trials they went through, ascended to a higher plane, became recognized and worshiped as a god, they're still humans? When did I ever say Buddha was a primordial god of some sort? In fact, I literally paraphrased his lore itself as a human to reaching nirvana.
I'll pander to you then.
If you were born into wealth, would you appreciate what it took to gain that money moreso than if you earned it?
Alright, personally I would of course appreciate what it took to gain it. My parents are first generation immigrants, and we manage to live in a duplex, as opposed to most of my other friends who are children of immigrants that live in a 4 1/2 apartments. Whether I feel if I earned it or not, would be determined more by whether I use it for my own indulgence or in investment.
Now let me try to predict your analogy. I'm gonna guess you're going to say something superficial as; Neither Buddha or Hercules were directly born to godhood, so they are not exactly gods, but they earned the title of being a god. Okay, then what the fuck even is your argument then? On one hand, you're saying Buddha isn't a god because he was originally human, same for Hercules, but you're also not denying the fact they have ascended to god hood. By the way, neither Buddha nor Hercules directly wished to become gods whatsoever. In fact, even Hercules' original lore had nothing to do with becoming a god. His 12 trials were a scheme made by Hera, but Hercules believed it to be reprimand for the madness Hera placed onto him, that led to the murder of his own wife and child. Buddha didn't aim to become god, he simply meditated on the suffering in the world, while under the Bohdi tree, was tempted by Mara but denied all of them, thus extinguishing the three poisons, realize the four noble truths, and finally reached enlightenment. You are actively denying the idea of them being recognized as gods for the sake of proving what? That they were once humans? Okay, but they literally still became gods regardless of your argument. Heck, Hercules just became a god after being burned on a pyre, and incinerating his mortal body and allowing his god side to ascend into Olympus. So even then, he has technically become the same kind of god that you exemplify Zeus to be. He is the son of a god, was only bound to a mortal realm by his mortal half, but once that is gone he becomes the same kind of god as Zeus, born into it naturally.