Look at the moon. Those craters - the ol’ dude took those hits for us, man...
One of the requirements that cosmologists have discovered/derived for intelligent life to exist in a solar system are “shields” to keep the life supporting planet from getting hit so much. We have our gas giants, and our moon.
We wouldn’t be here now if some asteroid or super-lava event hadn’t cleared the dinosaurs out of our way.
We need these hits now and then to keep the planet youthful.
One could as well argue that because they took the hits, life thrived on Earth. As in, chance, again.
Besides, it's not like the Earth hasn't taken any hits on its own, either. The dinosaurs went out because of a mega-impact hit that the Earth took.