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While I feel your fear, I don't understand how people come to this conclusion or how this fear is created in them. If you look around you, at least 90% of the issues we suffer from everyday are caused by ourselves or other selfish people. War, climate change, poverty, violence and greed all are caused by humans with free will. I even wished these didnt had human causes because knowing there was no way it couldn't happen could made enduring it a lot easier. I would say it's more accurate to say that the universe is neutral instead of uncaring, because as dangerous space is, earth is a large and safe home for us and other creatures. Earth has the ozone layer that protects us from dangerous high enegry radiations, earth has a large magnetic field which protects us from most solar storms, earth has a thick atmosphere that protects us from 99.9999% of astroids. And it's not just earth, Jupiter because of it's immense gravity alters astroid paths away from earth. You can search about "Jupiter cosmic vacuum cleaner" to find more about this. While in the past earth's surface has been devastated by cataclysmic events multiple times, life moved on, and dinosaurs lived for a million years before being wiped out. Maybe I misunderstood what people mean by "the universe"
i do understand your point on manmade issues, and these are the source of the majority of the big problems we face today. that being said, you can't deny there's a cruelty in the randomness of the universe. sometimes good people die horribly and bad people have long, healthy lives.
Yeah I also get mad at this sometimes, but I always try to remind myself that even if a bad, influential person dies, another bad person takes their thrown by every dirty trick imaginable. This problem must be fixed from it's roots, which is to be a good person and raise children who grow to be good and honorable people. Everyday not only think about yourself but also about others beyond your family and friends. Help anyone your hand reaches to and always prefer other's benefit from yourself. I know not everyone can be like this but even if 60% of people where, the world would have been a much better place.