That's what "turning the other cheek" was all about. It didn't mean to surrender to an attack...it meant not to return a hostile thought or intention with an an equally hostile thought or intention. Do not respond to negative thinking with negative thinking of your own. "Two wrongs don't make a right."

Anyone who has dealt with interpersonal relations in a family or a relationship ought to understand that or they are going to just exacerbate existing problems.

Likeswise, hurling abuse and hatred at someone who has just hurled abuse and hatred at you doesn't really do a thing to resolve a disagreement.

Seems like it took the Irish quite a while to figure that one out, and the Israelis and Palestinians haven't done too well either.