Every day I'm on this subreddit, and every day I see at least 1 or 2 posts about Jason, saying that he's not that bad, or misunderstood, or had good intentions, and that's simply not true in my opinion, and here's why:

He was a bully, and when Lucas tried to explain everything to him in episode 9, he still didn't listen. He used the deaths from the Starcourt mall "fire" for his own benefit so he could manipulate the crowd in order to gain their support for himself and his team, he had no empathy for the deceased and only used their names for his own personal interests, which is not the actions of a good person. He used the same tactics to form a lynch mob to hunt down kids before he could get any facts about what was really going on, he hunted an innocent teenager because he needed someone else to blame for his girlfriend's death because his narcissistic ass couldn't blame himself, could he? He beat the shit out of Eddie's bandmates and broke Eddie's friend's fingers, making it possible that he may not be able to ever play the guitar again because Jason was out for blood and most likely wanted to kill Eddie, not just make him confess. And he beat the shit out of Lucas even when Lucas explained to him what was going on. He pointed a gun at Lucas and fired it when he didn't get the answer he wanted to hear. His friend died in front of him and there was no way Eddie could've been involved with that and he still blamed Eddie for it. He didn't want to see what was going on at home with Chrissy because he had an idealized, shallow view of her and anything that would skew his perfectionistic, narcissistic view of her would be a blow to his ego.

His actions speak pretty loudly and clearly about what kind of a person he was, and it's not good. I can sympathise with him up to a degree because his girlfriend died, and he was very distraught and upset about it. Losing someone you love and care about is never easy for anyone, so I understand him to a degree. BUT, he had violent and manipulative tendencies before Chrissy's death so that's as far as my sympathies go. If after all that you still want to believe he had good intentions and was misunderstood, then I don't know what else to tell you.