But doesn't life contradict physics? Why should there be something that wants to take energy from its surroundings? What about entropy? Life contradicts entropy. Why do things want to make order out of a universe that tends toward disorder?
And thinking like that, that life is a contradiction of physical laws, it makes sense that people want to take the least convenient path. People are irrational. They do want to work hard.
So many times, people ask for something and propose a difficult solution and I say, "What about this?" and they come back with all the reasons that that simple solution I proposed isn't going to work. The only valid solution in their mind requires effort on part of an entire organization of people, when the could just setup an auto-reminder for themselves.