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Because we're monkeys that just came down from the trees. TBH that we've gotten this far relatively intact is remarkable.
On the offchance you don't mean in a current events way, but more cosmically: To all appearances the universe wasn't built for us, we just kind of showed up in a grimy corner of it. Living things have the brutal kind of existence that often goes along with being stowaways or pests.
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Ugh, sorry. In lieu of a hug, I'll point out that we haven't failed yet, and there's good and bad sides to being here by accident. The existentialists were straight up excited about it, actually - you get to define goals for yourself, amazing! I take a more neutral stance. It's like being rats in Notre Dam or on an early explorer's boat. It's tough but boy do we get to see some cool things. And, although there's no guarantee there's a happy ending, at the same time anything is possible; no god to look after us also means no god to smite us for our ambition.