Lots of people feel powerless in life. This is often heavily tied into depression and feeling victimized. Whether depression and victimization makes you feel powerless or powerlessness makes you feel depressed is up in the air (probably each lends to the other, in a spiral of doom), but there's no question that they're tied together.
Breaking things is a simple, quick way to feel powerful. At the same time, breaking things is also often considered morally reprehensible.
Righteousness means doing the things that would otherwise be wrong, but aren't, because they so need doing that it's ok. It's justification, or moral evasion, depending on how you look at it.
So if you take all those things together, breaking things righteously means that you're feeding your desire to feel powerful by breaking something that you believe needs to be broken. You've evaded the moral quandary of "I need to do something to feel powerful but the only powerful thing I can do is wrong."
So yeah, it happens. It's balls. It's also often the only out a really depressed or victimized person sees to a sucky situation. That does not, however, absolve them of any of the responsibility of what they've done. The answer should be to deal with the depression so that they feel less powerless, not to reak other people's things.
Breaking things is a simple, quick way to feel powerful. At the same time, breaking things is also often considered morally reprehensible.
Righteousness means doing the things that would otherwise be wrong, but aren't, because they so need doing that it's ok. It's justification, or moral evasion, depending on how you look at it.
So if you take all those things together, breaking things righteously means that you're feeding your desire to feel powerful by breaking something that you believe needs to be broken. You've evaded the moral quandary of "I need to do something to feel powerful but the only powerful thing I can do is wrong."
So yeah, it happens. It's balls. It's also often the only out a really depressed or victimized person sees to a sucky situation. That does not, however, absolve them of any of the responsibility of what they've done. The answer should be to deal with the depression so that they feel less powerless, not to reak other people's things.
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