Why we, as humans mess up and do BAD things?

because it is the way that it has always went for us

Explanation:

They may be selfish and believe that as long as the benefit in some way then it is OK for them to break the rule (this can also be seen as ‘immoral’).

They may be mentally ill and therefore unable to apply morality in a way that is generally accepted. They may not understand that what they are doing is bad - or there definition of good and bad does not follow the accepted norm.

They may be religious and follow rules or instructions that contradict the golden rule. As Steven Weinberg said “With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”.

They may be acting under some duress. For example they may be forced to do something bad with the threat of something bad happening to them if they do not. A similar effect can occur when people are strongly indoctrinated with some idea - for example the effect that the Nazis had on the people of Germany.

I am sure there are more reasons I could think of if I thought about it for long enough. The point being that people do bad things for all sorts of reasons.

Explanation:

this passage has a lot of figurative language like examples are

the day we found the sharks' teeth was foggy and cool.

moisture hung in the air so thick you could almost see it sparkling in the dim sunlight.

figurative language can not be taken seriously it is just sayings.