I would guess the former.

You and I are the former. He is the latter.

You strike me as the former type.

If it's the first... If I'm putting on an act, these handcuffs will never come off.

The former is commonplace stupidity... ...but the latter is rare and difficult to come by.

In the end, I've decided to pursue the former.

It's probably the former.

We chose the former.