The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp wrote:
Or, you know, get rewarded with the earth.
Your biblical understanding is weak. https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionary/meekness/
The meek response would not have been to walk away but rather stand firm in the face of unfair circumstances because of your strength. The meek do not bow to the unjust, they stoically meet the unjust without arrogance but with the assurance of faith. What you propose is farther from meek than what they actually did. Being meek and being weak are not the same thing, or did you forget that part of the Bible where Jesus knocked over the money changer's tables and cast them from his Father's house?
The Bible wrote: 13And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, 14And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables https://biblehub.com/kjv/john/2.htm
Jesus, the most meek of all, straight up whipped people out of the temple. That seems at odds with submitting the public space to the unjust.
Or you remove any satisfaction they could have gotten.
They simply want attention. Get rid of that and you give the bullys nothing.
They gain nothing from the experience, while you gain not having an asshole taunt you.
What are you, a 90's school counselor? Some bullies want attention. Others want nothing more than to humiliate and assert their control over other people and shared spaces. In the latter case they want you to be cowed.