No, but you still live in the culture. You absorb it, and you have to go along to some extent. There are cultural expectations which are sometimes enforced quite violently. I'm glad I'm not the parent of a minor right now, for example. I even worry that I might not be able to protect my son from treatments he doesn't want.

Forced psychiatric treatment is a perfect example actually. Driven by drug profits IMO. Harped on constantly in the media every time there's another shooting incident. I read comments after news stories saying it should be easier to forcibly hospitalize and treat people, that it's worth it to trade civil liberties for what they imagine would be greater safety. People even complain about the closing of the state mental hospitals. Do they really want to go back to that?

So here you have a cultural narrative - "The Story of Mental Illness" - being constructed by Big Pharm. It's fed to us probably in a variety of ways - news, advertising, etc. Mental illness is a biological illness passed on genetically and requiring life-long medication. Sadly people with mental illness lack insight into their condition, and they're also prone to becoming dangerously violent. We need to identify these people and force treatment (i.e., medication) on them.

And even intelligent people believe it. They believe mental illness is a chemical imbalance in the brain. It's like diabetes in that you'll have to take medication for life. Psychiatrists know there's no evidence for the chemical imbalance thing, but the average person doesn't. Why is that? Where is this story coming from? Who benefits from having the general population swallow The Story of Mental Illness hook, line, and sinker?

It isn't easy to go against your entire culture, and sometimes there's a price to pay for not going along.