Think it is a geek/nd failure mode tbh.
I have also done something like that in some messy situations and it was eye-opening when people just told me 'dude, I dont want to be involved, and thus dont care', obv a bit different than this case (as the people here do seem to care), but it made me realize I was stupidly trying to explain myself to people and hoping that helped with the issue/emotional issues coming from that issue.
Hell part of this 'people will see my side if I explain it' is one of the reasons some instances got defederated.
This reminded me of a few old comic stories were eventually the robot/computer was partially running on blood.
(One of them was a judge dredd one where they had vampire robots who iirc used the blood to keep a president in suspended animation alive. Snap, Crackle and Pop, it had a suprisingly wholesome ending for a dredd comic).