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I would add group C: people who do not make a personal choice, but rather just become whatever the social circle around them (which can be defined more narrowly or more widely) expects them to be. They just say whatevs... and take the default offering.
For many people, the Truth is what is socially useful.
And though I find it revolting, I have a hard time saying they're wrong. Well being for a member of a social species is largely determined by social status and allegiances.
Wrongness, of course, depends on what you're optimizing for.
If you really really want to be a bona fide member of your tribe, well, then you live by your tribe's fate and you die by your tribe's fate.
Some people would call you loyal. Other people would call you a sheep.
And some would call you wise in the ways of winning.
I agree, but my point was not a comprehensive segmentation of the whole population, but the existence of the groups I mentioned. Also, the border between B and C might be blurry.