Yeos,
Say someone strikes you or robs you. In both cases it is an act of violence on the other part. The natural (survival) instinct is to hit back or snatch back what you have been robbed of.
Now it is up to you to not let it become violence on your part as well by retaliating. The other is responsible for his actions, you for your own. Of course, this takes mindfulness. If you ‘take it on the cheek’ and do not re-act the matter is finished there and then. (The thought may arise: since this has happened to me, I must deserve it). Feeling compassion for the other is even going further:
‘Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal’
“Na hi verena verāni sammantīdha kudācanaṃ
Averena ca sammanti esa dhammo sanantano.” (Dhammapada v.5)
If you do re-act the tit-for-tat will continue into the future. Dhp v. 5 shows how to put an end to it.
Metta