Do I bend over backwards and turn the other check no matter what happens. Or do I properly defend myself and others according to my values. Values is a thing that for me gets wrapped up in beliefs and sometimes for me confused.
There should be no confusion in a case where three guys are about to rape your girlfriend.
To turn the other cheek is about transforming energy. A skill that is lost in the mass conciousness. It was Jesus way to oppose the Jewish law of an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth. That keeps thing in stagnation, no process, only earthly justice.
When we can take an insult and neutralize it then we have made a transformation of energy.