There's a difference between coming to that point of view by reason, willingly, and being dragged to it by a substance, unreasoningly.

Try using reason to explain the taste of an apple to someone who has never tasted it.

True, some trips can get more deeply philosophiocal than you are comfortable with, but typically no matter what corner of philosophy you think yourself into, greater minds have been there and done that. For me for example it sparked some interest in reading Nietzsche.

Knowing that one has a capacity to commit violence isn't the concerning part. The "barely contained" part is.

Yeah, Solzhenitsyn has that too. Here's a famous excerpt.

https://mbird.com/literature/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-on-the-l...

Except the way he came to that reealization was through spending a good while in the gulag instead of tripping balls. Pick your poison.