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@edscoble
Your MTB have three time more rubber because it's three time more likely to get punctured off-road.
On the road, you don't really need that much, at least when being assertive and taking the primary position when needed (i.e. not riding in the gutter which increase the likeihood of getting a puncture).
My personal recommendation is a 25-28c Conti Grand Prix 4 season, it give me huge amount of grip while being puncture resistance, but ride with your current tyres so you can get the idea of how it feel, skinny 23c tyres are not recommended especially in cities/town with poor road surface.
You will feel the bike will be a lots faster to ride than your MTB and easily get up to speed with the least effort.
Also, there's no 'dark side', there's no segregation between different rider here (like roadie, MTber, TT, etc.), the only thing we have in common is that we ride a bike, that's it.