This response is not directly commenting on the case or Baldwin's specific character flaws, public or private.
I want to point out that one of the imbalances in modern American culture is this idea that anger is an evil (and it is), but any amount of provocation is not an evil. For example, I don't necessarily see Baldwin in the wrong to be barking back at a paparazzi hound. I think that non-celebrities (that means you and me) generally do not understand (a) just how much physical and psychological pressure a crowd of paparazzi can create and (b) just how often the paparazzi are unleashed as hell-hounds by the invisible Hollywood power elite (e.g. Weinstein) against actors and other celebrities that get out-of-line. Once again, I'm not commenting on Baldwin's specific character flaws, I'm just saying that the general assumption that an actor losing their temper with a paparazzo is ispo facto evidence of having an anger-problem is, in my view, simply false. And I don't think that just any amount of provocation within another person's personal space -- especially from a crowd of multiple individuals -- is permitted without it eventually amounting to a reasonable belief of imminent harm. If you ask someone who has moved into your personal space to move back out of your personal space, and they don't, that is an implicit threat unless there is some material reason they cannot move (someone behind them or you're in a packed elevator, etc.) I guess the point I'm trying to make is that anger is a problem in American culture, but so is intentional provocation and rage-baiting. All of it needs to stop.
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