- 15 Sep 2016 15:46
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I've been thinking about this some more and I think that if you have to turn the other cheek, as in you have no other choice, it's not really turning the other cheek. It is just rationalizing or coping with a circumstance. This isn't to say that suffering can't have a spiritual context but I'm not sure that turning the other cheek is it.
I think instead, turning the other cheek is when you have the option to react in a different way but choose not to exercise that option. This says a lot of things about the people involved in the situation, when a person who lacks power is the one attacking and the person who has power is showing restraint. In its worse articulation it is kind of liberal, but in another articulation it is very flattering to the person who has power and yet shows restraint, self-control or even mercy. I think it's interesting to ask ourselves why we would do this or why we would want to do it.
I think instead, turning the other cheek is when you have the option to react in a different way but choose not to exercise that option. This says a lot of things about the people involved in the situation, when a person who lacks power is the one attacking and the person who has power is showing restraint. In its worse articulation it is kind of liberal, but in another articulation it is very flattering to the person who has power and yet shows restraint, self-control or even mercy. I think it's interesting to ask ourselves why we would do this or why we would want to do it.
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