The worldviews held by joiners and loners, especially strong individualists and individuators, could not be more contrasting.
As a rule, joiners are motivated by doing what their group does, so as not to lose power, rank, and popularity within the clique. These motives are instinctive, clever, selfish, and emotional—what is right and ethical is what the group determines, and what is wrong and disgraceful is what the group decides.
A more objective, rational standard of ethics would keep joiners from going off the moral cliff so often, and this is why altruistic ethics are evil more than good.
The individuators, as a rule, is guided by his thinking about the right course to take, less guided by his passionate reaction to a course of action or worry about what his groups-association should push him to choose to do.
For this reason, on average, he will do what is ethically right, more than ethically wrong.
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