You can’t make people smarter. You can expose them to information, but your responsibility stops there.
There is never an absolute answer to everything, except of course that you have to do your squats.
If you insist on wearing gloves, make sure they match your purse.
Most of the problems with the bodies and minds of the folks occupying the current culture involve an unwillingness to do anything hard, or anything that they’d rather not do. I applaud your resolve, and I welcome you to the community of people who have decided that EASY will no longer suffice.
Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and at the contest level requires a degree of vanity, narcissism, and self-absorption that I find distasteful and odd.
Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.
A squat cannot be performed on a Smith machine any more than it can be performed in a small closet with a hamster.