I’ve had these kinds of thoughts [referring to the OP] many times. I don’t think they were very healthy for me
I suspect that they are unhealthy for a lot of people.
Jordan Peterson asserts that many mass murders are motivated by desire for revenge against the Universe and offers as evidence the observation that many mass murders choose the most innocent victims they can. (More precisely, since Peterson is religious, he has “revenge against God”, but the nearest translation for non-religious people would be “revenge against the Universe”.) And of course for a person to accumulate a large pool of vengeful feelings, the person must believe or at least strongly suspect that the target of the feelings is responsible for the bad things that happened to the person.
I cannot recall whether Peterson ever explicitly said so, but I am left with the impression that Peterson considers vengeful feelings directed at the Universe (and possibly also other large collective entities, e.g., the Cambodian nation) to be more likely to accumulate to the extent that they blot out the ability to think rationally in the pursuit of one’s own self-interest than vengeful feeling directed at a mere person or clique of persons. (Harboring vengeful feelings directed at the Cambodian nation would be particularly harmful to you if you were Cambodian or lived in Cambodia.)
I would argue that the amount of murders committed by people with the desire for “revenge against the universe” is less than 0.01% of murders and probably much less than murders committed in the name of Christianity during the Crusades. Should we conclude that Christianity is also unhealthy for a lot of people?
This idea of cherry-picking the worst phenomenon related to a worldview and then smearing with it the entire worldview is basically one of the lowest forms of propaganda.
I suspect that they are unhealthy for a lot of people.
Jordan Peterson asserts that many mass murders are motivated by desire for revenge against the Universe and offers as evidence the observation that many mass murders choose the most innocent victims they can. (More precisely, since Peterson is religious, he has “revenge against God”, but the nearest translation for non-religious people would be “revenge against the Universe”.) And of course for a person to accumulate a large pool of vengeful feelings, the person must believe or at least strongly suspect that the target of the feelings is responsible for the bad things that happened to the person.
I cannot recall whether Peterson ever explicitly said so, but I am left with the impression that Peterson considers vengeful feelings directed at the Universe (and possibly also other large collective entities, e.g., the Cambodian nation) to be more likely to accumulate to the extent that they blot out the ability to think rationally in the pursuit of one’s own self-interest than vengeful feeling directed at a mere person or clique of persons. (Harboring vengeful feelings directed at the Cambodian nation would be particularly harmful to you if you were Cambodian or lived in Cambodia.)
I would argue that the amount of murders committed by people with the desire for “revenge against the universe” is less than 0.01% of murders and probably much less than murders committed in the name of Christianity during the Crusades. Should we conclude that Christianity is also unhealthy for a lot of people?
This idea of cherry-picking the worst phenomenon related to a worldview and then smearing with it the entire worldview is basically one of the lowest forms of propaganda.