> Many people think that good things happen to good people because nature/god cares.
Any realistic, objective sampling of human experience instantly falsifies this claim. The correlation coefficient between "good" behavior and "good" outcomes (and the reverse) is precisely zero.
To many people, the single most annoying thing about science is that it quickly demolishes such romantic notions, using logic and objective statistical sampling.
This isn't commonly accepted even now. Many people think that good things happen to good people because nature/god cares.