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Now to the other part of the equation. Can doing good solve the problems of evil being done. For some people the answer is a definitive no. There are sick psychopaths out there that only wish to harm others. Letting them do it will encourage them to do it more or to do it again. Have nothing to do with these individuals, and protect those you love from them. For most everyone else, an act of kindness regardless if they wronged you or not, changes their attitudes towards you or to those you might resemble. And in this way returning good actually can conquer evil, by ending the cycle of harm being done that then gets passed onto another and then another until it stops with a person who doesn't pass it back or in their frustration pass their anger onto someone else. (Like a supervisor's boss yelling at him can lead to the supervisor venting his anger on those he is in charge of).

The three outlooks I've got for turning the other cheek, is that 1) a person's patience can heal the other person from whatever's going on inside them, possibly even save them if you go that far in a Christian reasoning; or 2) it can actually end a string of harm and anger that passes on from one person to the next until it stops from a person who will not pass the harm on; and 3) The person turning the other cheek is trusting God to handle the matter.

There are many different philosophies and ethics out there. But I would say that the vindictive ones are the ones that sound great but actually when looking back cause the most harm. Going to a direction of turning the other cheek and distancing yourself from those who don't come around is a better option of ethics in my opinion.