Whatever the meaning of this odd act called crucifixion, it is clearly an act of violence. We begin then with violence. In the strictest sense, we cannot exist without being violent. We also inhabit a continuum of behavioral violence, that being interference with another person in some suasive, manipulative way. Words form our most common means of behavioral violence.
Money is a highly effective weapon of behavioral violence.
But our most potent method of behavioral violence lies in the exemplary force of our lives as we live them. The nature and quality of our lives reflect and advertise our conscious and unconscious decisions in a highly convincing, highly visible manner. The nonviolent person is understood to be one who will neither use nor resist physical violence. Few would deny that that is a noble and possibly even valuable behavior for a human being to aspire to. The doctrine of nonviolence is based on the attractive but dangerously naive assumption that all violence is physical, that is, bloody.