Question

Hello Rabbi,
A thought came to me regarding a Christian theological way of thinking. Of course, historically I do not believe that that man was a prophet or any nonsense of that sort, and I am also not sure either about the description of reality that I will present below or that I am presenting a sufficiently clear conception, but in my opinion this is something worth bringing up and asking what the Rabbi thinks.
The Rabbi nicely described free choice with the parable of topographical conditions, where the choice is whether to be a little ball and submit to the natural circumstances, or choose to act against them. It seems that the common Jewish view places a great deal of trust in this free choice, and that in the Torah and the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), the Holy One, blessed be He, really does expect a high standard of choice from the Jewish people and punishes us for our “ball-like-ness.” However, over time I have started to get the impression that the struggle is pointless. Already in the Hebrew Bible there is a description of the Sisyphean struggle—each time the Jewish people sin and the Holy One, blessed be He, punishes, and it does not seem ever to end. In everyday life too, I get the impression that people almost always remain in their ball-like-ness, whether in small things like cutting in line or not cleaning up after themselves in the restroom, or in big things like corruption, bribery, and cruelty, regarding which it sometimes feels that a large majority of people are simply numb and choose the morally wrong side when it is convenient for them. That is, it seems there is no chance that most people will conduct their lives in a non-ball-like way.
Although I agree that the situation in the world is improving and getting better over the course of history, that is mainly because of: a. technological improvement, and b. because we as a society are learning to find better mechanisms to limit the harm we can cause one another—not because people are less “ball-like.”
Here comes the somewhat vague part: this makes me think that perhaps the expectation that people be moral is simply incorrect and beyond their abilities. Even though theoretically they have the capacity for free choice, in practice only a select few do it. Maybe it is better to give up entirely on the expectation that people be moral, to relate to them constantly only with the attribute of mercy (not on the level of state law but on the personal level), to try to be completely altruistic, accepting, and loving toward everyone even when they seemingly do not deserve it, and to forgive everyone for every bad thing they do (all this, of course, assuming you are capable of acting this way). Perhaps in this way it is possible to bring about good in the world even when others are not capable of doing so, and perhaps this absolute altruism will also spark some glimmer of good in the hearts of people who usually fail to get out of their ball-like-ness.
I would be glad to know what the Rabbi thinks about this description, and whether the Rabbi can point to flaws, both in the realistic description and in the theological conception I have described.