Culture can frame the choices as to what is "acceptable" or what is cowardice but it doesn't MAKE the choices, individual people do.
every Okinawan who could have, didn't jump off those cliffs. Wanna bet there's at least one German who jaywalks (if he thinks none of his peer will see him)??
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I don't believe Campbell's cultural thesis excludes free will.
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I don't think it excluded free will, however I didn't see any mention of it, either.
I don't think there is any "metric" for measuring free will. Certainly nothing like the ones for measuring deaths per 100,000 or genetic background or economic status.
For one thing, there's no way to measure what people haven't done yet.