Is the world really that bad?

It is a cruel world. Innocent people die, guilty people live. Albert Camus, it appears,had contemplated that same notion in the time around the completion of his novel. In the Plague, the protagonist, Dr. Rieux initially how people like to depend on rational things, and how wars and plagues are not rational and they plague our existence as humans. While analyzing Grand and his peculiar manner of being, Dr. R then thought of how unfair it was that good people like him have to die from such random events. This epiphany, that life is fleeting and that anytime might be your time,can be interpreted as a contradictory claim towards the whole "God determines everything" that most religions preach. God would not kill-off someone who did not deserve it, right? It may also just represent a recent concern that he might have had of what life really is. In any case, it is clear that, although small in numbers, this passage exploring such sentiments do affect the novel as a whole. It makes everything more significant and related to any situation in modern life. The world is either cruel on purpose, or it just is cruel due to the lack of predictability.