I always found it frustrating as a teen when someone told me “the solution is complicated” or “there is no real answer.” To me, it was a cop out from providing a straight forward response. 

Of course there’s an answer. You just have to admit it!

Unfortunately, you come to realize that all answers have consequences and those consequences create further questions—even problems. Many times, the answers we give, in an effort to provide one, create unintended consequences.

To me, this is the appeal of the philosophers who spend their days ruminating about various answers. They can provide thought experiments to show potential solutions and further issues, getting humanity slightly closer to some semblance of an answer to life’s biggest questions. 

Of course, there’s never a real answer and the problem we’re running into now is that we need one. 

We’ve hit the precipe of when technology needs moral responses to its programming. Otherwise, it will just run rampant with whatever biological bias its engineer has. It’s a massive responsibility to take on with an even greater question behind it:

Who is even equipped to provide such answers?