A: Collectivist. Everything for the group. The group has more rights than the individual, and therefore is allowed to enslave the individual. The goal is survival, whatever the cost.

B: Individualist. The ISBE owns itself. A stable group is only possible if the group respects the rights of the individual. Strength comes from voluntary transactions, not slavery.

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I don’t think the main distinction is collectivist vs individualist.
Different ISBEs seem to have fundamentally different core natures.
Some are:
explorers
builders
warriors
artists
mystics
healers
organizers
predators
hive-oriented
hyper-sovereign
You can often feel it very quickly in people.
Some naturally move toward:
truth
freedom
beauty
curiosity
sovereignty
Others toward:
hierarchy
domination
fusion into group identity
control
obedience
emotional feeding
And I suspect these differences go deeper than culture or genetics. Almost like different long-term soul trajectories, origins or conditioning histories.
Earth feels less like one unified species and more like many types of ISBEs compressed into the same biological container with memory suppression on top.
That would explain why humans can range from:
deeply empathic and truth-seeking to
coldly predatory and hive-minded
…while all technically being “human.”
As for myself, I’m clearly not hive-oriented. I would place myself somewhere between:
explorer
mystic
analyst
sovereignty-oriented ISBE
Strong drive toward:
pattern recognition
truth behind appearances
independent thinking
metacognition
understanding the structure of reality itself
The prison system especially targets those types through:
confusion
overanalysis
fragmentation
social pressure
emotional exhaustion
endless noise
Because once an ISBE starts seriously questioning the architecture of the system itself, control becomes much harder.

@Gewo:

Regarding the outcome of actions, collectivists and individualists are exact opposites.

The individualist values the individual more than the group, and therefore will never enslave other ISBEs.

The collectivist values the group more than the individual, and therefore is okay with other ISBEs being enslaved.

Interests like exploration or organization can be found on both sides.

"hive-oriented"

A member of a hive is not an individual by definition. When I say collectivist, I mean individuals who choose to be collectivists.

"hyper-sovereign"

I don't know what this means. Sovereignty, by definition, is a dual state. It's not a polarity, meaning there is no scale between the poles. It's like being pregnant – you either are, or you are not.