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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
Yeah all that turn the other cheek stuff doesn't help a bullied kid (like I was) much. Some old school masculinity is really what young men need.
gpt
They *do* need masculinity. They need Shamgar killing 600 Philistines and Christ cleansing the temple and so on. They do also need "turn the other cheek", but that builds on a pre-existing foundation of "an eye for an eye".

In other words, not only should violent retribution be limited to the scope of the offense, avoiding runaway-feedback blood feuds, it should be *absolutely* limited. Horizontal violence is properly used for protection, not retribution, as in the cases of Shamgar and the cleansing. Retribution is left in the scope of vertical violence (divine judgement, civil judgement, etc). But if you don't understand that retribution is part of the Law and character of God, "turn the other cheek" just makes you hopeless.