How many of our answers to important questions in mental health are simply a result of our conditioning?

Take America for example. One of the founding ideas is the right to the
pursuit of happiness. There was no right to the pursuit of misery. If,
today, a member of the America public was asked what is important or
what is mental health many answers may reflect the ideas of the founding
fathers of the USA.

Bugger. That sort of buggers a democratic mental health system because
the answers may simply be the answers of people in history who, perhaps,
got it wrong.