>>I have a sneaky suspicion that this scenario is where the "turn the other cheek" parable comes into play.<<
I'm more of an Old Testament kind of guy - except I've usually found the jawbone of an *ass* is over-rated as a weapon - at least it is seldom as powerful as the *ass* thinks it to be.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
