The really saintly thing to do would be to turn the other cheek, take the abuse without complaint, and if he steals from you, give him the food as a gift (as in this (http://education.yahoo.com/homework_help/cliffsnotes/les_miserables/8.html) famous story).
I wonder how many people could actually do this, though?
There's a rather sneering anecdote by Martin Amis in "The Moronic Inferno" in which Amis reports going to watch the performance of an American evangelical preacher. "You hit me, and I'll turn the other cheek. But you hit my wife or kids, boy, and I'll put you on the floor." Amis presents this as rather contemptible, but for the life of me I still can't see why. It seems a perfectly practicable moral code to me.
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I wonder how many people could actually do this, though?
There's a rather sneering anecdote by Martin Amis in "The Moronic Inferno" in which Amis reports going to watch the performance of an American evangelical preacher. "You hit me, and I'll turn the other cheek. But you hit my wife or kids, boy, and I'll put you on the floor." Amis presents this as rather contemptible, but for the life of me I still can't see why. It seems a perfectly practicable moral code to me.
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