So, the question in my mind would be, at what point defending yourself or your loved one from an insult/joke would get you to act this way?
Trying to watch it from work, it makes me think of:
I have been in those positions and yes, it is provocative to grab a bat and make an example through violence to people who do not listen to the first verbal and bodily warnings.
First you laugh, give permission for them to do worse, they are no longer amused and you return a serious look of warning, they persist again and again because that look instead of making them stop in their intent to provoke you encourages them to continue in their abuse, you approach and give verbal warnings, they persist once more. There are only two options left, ignore the person and say strong words that do not necessarily have to be accompanied by rude words so as not to generate the undesired violent effect, but sometimes this is the result.
But if I am sure of something, is that when you become aware, violence is only an emergency resource to defend your physical integrity, the rest are just foolish words of which the care not to identify with them and see it personally, will make the difference no matter how much pressure you have because the knowledge of oneself does not give space to feel insulted by empty words that only shoot arrows to hit some weakness that motivates the irrational reaction. And additional, there is something internal that buffers and restrains that irrational side in one, the knowledge holds you back and cools you down in an extraordinary way to the edge of an uncontrolled anger or at least it has happened to me, I have the anger but at the same time my head is processing the information to such an extent that I see that the other person is just dealing with all his envy and internal garbage, reflecting and that rather makes me ashamed or I don't know if it is compassion exactly, but it cooled me down in seconds and I am glad I have not committed a greater stupidity than that person.
As Dr. Aleta Edwards once told me
"We only control ourselves".
If it's real, what's done is done. He has now given permission to others who think they are "rude" to make more fun of him and his family or make jokes "oh! "here comes Will, put a pillow on your face" until something worse happens or he just reconciles with Chris Rock or they say that it was all acting and that it was also a sobering performance for people.
They are actors, I don't believe in anything they do and say until there are really signs that they are being brutally attacked.
Is like the "right man" who instills respect, but in the end he is digging his own hole. What examples can you give to others among so many fools, opportunists and twisted minds who magnify their actions for the worse? I take off a glove and I slap you and we debate in a duel to the death? swords or guns?
Even what I have observed, is that all these things have taken place since Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman created that trend of comic rivalries between them and by playing with people's minds by watching their favorite actors
insult each other or show themselves in a more real way behind the scenes. A reality that borders more on intolerance, insult and examples of how to be the worst version of oneself, comically starting, until it becomes part of each person, each one will take it to their convenient level according to their internal state.
Except everyone is talking about them now. There's even a thread here. Good marketing.
Absolutely.
