>When you know who you are, and are confident in your values, then no amount of pressure from the outside world can make you bend a knee
Works great if you find this magic perfection. But in all likelihood you will not. You will be shaped by the biases of your upbringing and experiences that will put blinders on you. More so you will stick to your convictions with the justification of morality on your side, even when that is not the case.
That everything is essentially predetermined by my genetics, and how my environment has affected their expression; and that my free will and choices are just an elaborate illusion played by my biology.
But something in my biology is telling me to strive for something more.
Works great if you find this magic perfection. But in all likelihood you will not. You will be shaped by the biases of your upbringing and experiences that will put blinders on you. More so you will stick to your convictions with the justification of morality on your side, even when that is not the case.