Everyone Has Their Own Reasons

 Every day, we hear about incidents and conflicts.
Behind each one lies a set of personal circumstances—unique, complex, and often impossible to fully understand.

 

Every day, incidents fill the news.

Each of them is caused by the circumstances carried by the people involved.

These “circumstances” can range from minor stress to money, relationships, or work. If we break them down further, no two are ever exactly the same.

Even now, I find myself irritated by someone with a large suitcase blocking the doorway on a crowded train.

If I were to lose my temper here, it could escalate into trouble, and I might even put myself at risk.

It should not be allowed to turn into an incident so easily.

If this were a machine, once a goal is set, it would simply pursue the optimal solution and choose the same method every time. It would not intentionally cause harm to humans.

To be precise, it is not about harm or benefit—machines do not concern themselves with human life or death. They simply follow their programming.

If they were programmed never to kill a human, they might even become unable to act at all.

And yet, in war, a machine would carry a bomb to its destination and drop it, exactly as instructed.

Whether people are there or not would not matter.

If wars were conducted by AI, they might become somewhat more restrained toward humans. But if it were a conflict between AI and humans, AI would likely have the advantage.

This is because humans have too many “circumstances,” while AI has none of that complexity.

Even if we try to program human circumstances into AI, what we are really encoding is not “circumstances” themselves, but the biases and assumptions of those who design the system. And those can never be absolutely correct.

If AI were to make autonomous decisions, could it truly arrive at the optimal solution for humanity?

Probably not.

Because satisfying one side inevitably means failing another. Human desires are not unified, and there is no single truth that applies to everyone.

In the end, AI might simply stop functioning altogether.

Perhaps one day, some method will bring about the greatest common happiness for humanity.

But there will always be those left behind.

For those people, the world may feel like darkness, and from there, new and complex circumstances will arise.

Are humans simply selfish, or is this just what it means to be human?

In any case, each person carries their own circumstances—many of them urgent, unavoidable, and demanding immediate resolution.

Call it selfish if you like, but it is undeniably complicated.

 

Too many circumstances—perhaps that is both the weakness and the essence of being human.