I have to preface this with the fact that I don't know the answer. After thinking about it for awhile, I realized not knowing the answer has never stopped me before so here goes.

First question is: Who started it? Who fired the first arrow? It was Chris Rock as far as I know. It's not okay to make fun of someone's disease. How in hell can that be okay? It's cruel and imho should not be tolerated. Chris Rock caused personal injury to Jada.. she was hurt and upset. Is that what freedom of speech is for, to hurt others? Some think lying is protected under the freedom of speech principle. Naw.. don't think so. It's like saying you should be able to kill someone... it's all about the freedom... Obviously, there are limits.... as a quote from Jefferson clearly states.

So, Chris Rock.. never want to hear another word out of his mouth about anything.

Then there's the other side of the coin and what Will Smith did. He did the one thing that civilized people can NEVER do except in self-defense and he was under zero physical threat. Some may think he was justified. After all, his wife was being made fun of because of her disease. Yep, that would have pissed me off too. Do you think Smith didn't exercise self-control? He did use an open hand when he may of really wanted to use a close fist.

Irregardless, he was wrong to do what he did. If we can't keep our hands to ourselves, we'll never reach a civilized state and there will be no end to wars.

What Will Smith could've done... kept his mouth shut and his hands to himself until he went up to accept his award. Then, he could have addressed Chris Rock and expressed that making fun of a person's disease was unkind to say the least and asked CR to come to the microphone and apologize to Jada saying he was sorry for hurting her. I'd have had a lot of respect for that.

CR probably would've apologized I'm guessing.

Let cooler wiser heads prevail and stay on the road to civilization.