Why can't commit attempt a merge automatically?

Why is it that prior to each commit I need to do an update/merge
process? I can understand the necessity if there are conflicts, but
this seems like a bit of a pain if the changes that happened are not in
conflict with each other. It seems to me that if I change a file, I
should be able to just commit it, and then if someone else had snuck a
change in "under" me, that subversion would quietly merge the files
together, and assuming no conflict, go about its business. Maybe I am
being naive about this whole process, and I could certainly understand a
different/additional message about an automatic merge happening so that
I'm aware of it.

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