Whenever I read these issues, I remember that phrase that a Spanish philosopher used about "We are us and our circumstances" to refer to the fact that the influence of the environment on our life decisions and the choices we made were not things that could be taken to the light
Although certainly, even in the worst circumstances there is a desire that does what it considers correct and does not sink or follow the flow of others, what is most frequent in what I observe is that most of us subordinate our inner and good world part of our will to the influences of the external world ... In a way, we renounce the autonomy of freedom (which requires being responsible for oneself and the consequences of what we do) in favor of a Heteronomous subordination (where the will outside of us dominates and frees us from individual responsibility or at least reduces it, as is the case with "herd effects")