I didn't try make the argument that people should blindly do what those around them want them to do either, where did you get that? I'm just pointing out that "caring less what others think" isn't inherently virtuous. You turned it into this freedom brain shit, but like obviously of course you are free to do whatever, and people are free to feel how they feel about it. Whether you're willing to bear those consequences is part of the decisions-making that forms your freedom to act, how could it be otherwise.