If we're certain, I'm all for it. But it's not for me to produce explanations, but to those who support activist laws based on superficial statistical correlations that suit them. Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! (Martin Luther King)
Are you sure that's your question? Because in general, one can speak of multiple factors influencing decisions, but you seem to make them either-or, thus making potential other factors a negation of the social or economical factors. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.