The caliber of leadership

The caliber of leadership that prevails in the various scenarios will vary. 

Whose-side-are-you-on societies should promote more ruthless, cruel and ambitious leaders than societies that build and sustain things that endure. The ascendancy to leadership reflects the same heirarchy of values as the administration of justice. In whose-side-are-you-on societies justice is meted out as vengeance while leadership is achieved through the death and destruction of the opposition in a free-for-all battle of raw power. 

In building-and-sustaining-things-that-endure societies justice is meted out as the administration of due process while leadership is determined by another process, the electoral process, where rules and regulations and self-restraint govern the matter. 

In the beatific-dream-of-grace societies justice is never punitive, it is always rehabilitative and focused almost enitrely on distributive justice while the leadership roles are largely administrative that do not so much exercise power as they direct traffic.