"The ghosts have access to the memories of the bodies they're possessing, but that doesn't make them perfect at acting in line with their personalities. They're...desperate. For them, they're clinging to this as a last chance at life. Some are acting wildly erratically, and others...others just want to live."

And that's where Murderbot is stuck.

Because it doesn't want to hunt down and murder these supposed 'hostiles', just for...wanting to live. When it has a hard time with that, sometimes.