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It's like a switch goes off and I become a (very nice) sociopath. Nothing is taken personally, I have 0 emotional contagion (can still understand others, even better than usually), and I am just focused on the problem while staying completely detached. It's sort of eerie.

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You know all the rules. So you can watch the gears tick tick tick. Humans are just incredibly intricate clockwork. I get this too yeah. I like it. I'm not *supposed* to like it, but I get shit *done* in that mindset. Including acts of great kindness.

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I seem to switch it on selectively precisely because most people seem sort of like screaming, incoherent monkeys in that state. This would be very alienating/create a hostile social disposition as an always-on thing, but works for crisis situations since it removes fear & doubt.

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Yeah, always-on would be... bad. Supervillain bad. For me I can't fully control it, it comes out in crisis times near-exclusively.

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We have a word for people who have it on always and it's "sociopath", is my stance on that.

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Yeah, same. I can't exactly elicit it. It knows when it needs to be there.

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I think sociopaths can be capable of genuine good intention and prosocial drives, but if you're stuck inhabiting a stance where nobody can move you, you are liable to do harm to anyone and anything if they get even slightly in your way. This scales, viciously.