You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.
Marcus Cole, Babylon 5
https://blog.aniljohn.com/2013/04/unfairness-of-life-quote.html
Some bad things happen that people do not deserve but he is claiming that more bad things would happen if people always got what they deserve