People rarely ask questions unless they know there should be a clear and concise answer. It is generally not known why, although it is often speculated that people cannot tolerate feeling "stupid" by not knowing something, and asking such questions simply make them feel stupid. But this is just speculation, because there is no real answer why people don't ask such questions. It's spiralistic - "Why don't people ask questions to which there is no clear answer?" - well, there is no clear answer to that very question!
Is this what makes us human? Is this what makes us different? It seems to me that the concept of the "Human Condition" is very paradoxical in its own nature. What is the human condition? Depending on your system of beliefs, you either have been told what the human condition is (or, rather, what your particular doctrine of beliefs specifies it is and shoudl be) or alternatively, you have likely never asked yourself this question.
I'm here to tell you what I believe the human condition is - and what it is to me.
The human condition I see it is that we have to spend our time while we are alive seeking exactly what it is that defines us as unique from everyone else. What values we hold dear, what actions we find appalling, how we think is right to behave, etc, etc. Then, from there, once we have sought out what it is that makes us whole and thorough and human, we must violate ourselves by going against exactly what it is we believe.
It's not a choice, either. It's just how life turns out for everyone, absolutely every single person on the earth. All the great characters in fiction have done exactly this, and for what reason? It always leads to torment, for those and for those around them.
For example, in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Baron Frankenstein finds it an sbhorrence to create the hated life which he does. Yet he knows he must turn around and perform it again. There was no option, since his loved ones, and in turn, he himself, would also suffer. When he refuses, exactly this happens. He then does the only thing he can, and tries to escape and seek justice and revenge. In doing so, he further violates himself, seeking to cause pain, death, and destruction, which violates that character's status as introduced at the start of the novel, as a wholesome child of medicine.
Another example: Rick Deckard, in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, is a character who spends his time trying to realise what it is in the world around him that is wrong. The bounty-hunter realises that he must not destroy any further life, since on a dying world, life is sacred. Any life. Yet he knows that he must complete his last mission, since, as his God and spiritual leader, Mercer, tells him, people must always violate their condition, because it's part of life.
Another example: A boy finds perfection in his life for once. It's something to cling to, for sure. It's something to need. But he lets it go anyway. Why? He doesn't know...