"If a number of armed men stormed into your room right now, and handed you an apple and told you "if you do not eat the apple, we will kill you" is your choice to eat the apple a free choice? " Yes. As for factors such as subcultures, I like to think that any influence upon you from those factors are taken in by you and made your own. You have your choices as to what you want to follow. "Many things contribute to deviance, as well as other actions, many of them social." I always think it's something of human nature to be deviant. Inequality is something that will always exist between humans, therefore deviance will always be there. The myth of equality is just something nice that people who won't face reality believe. " simply speak with a drug, or someone under the influence of various drugs." Now this, is an interesting one. While they choose to take the drug, the effects are hard to pinpoint. People say that when under the influence of a drug they feel like they can act differently, more in a way that they like etc. It could be said the drug enables this behaviour OR it's the drug "speaking", as it were. Though I believe that under the influence of any drugs where you retain self awareness, there is always a level of choice on how you behave. The choices might just be harder to make. "If one's biology influences what they desire so greatly that it is the only thing on their mind, was it actually free will?" Now, human nature. Naturally, it's our nature to want to survive. Inevitably, there will be those with aberrant behaviour but factoring them in is a pain. If you feel hunger, it is uncomfortable and you will want to remove that feeling, correct? People tend to always want to be somewhere where they are comfortable but ultimately, they have the choice to ease the feeling or not. They will just be strongly inclined to ease it rather than not. Yes, what I've written may be a bit over the place so I apologise.