Midchuck,

Turning the other cheek is not just for Christians, and it's not about obligation anyhow-- it's about what works in practical terms to keep a group of people in communication instead of pulling them apart because being the communication has become so nasty no one want to be talking anymore. So what the non-Christian world calls this is, perhaps, "Let it go" and "don't sweat the small stuff" or "don't take someone else's opinion so seriously and personally that you get your panties in a wad."

Not because you OWE it to the other person but becuase life seems to go better if we sometimes give better than we get.

~Susan