Anuvrat does not demand more than this, even though it aims at much more. Its goal is to avoid unnecessary killing of even the smallest being. Both from the ecological and a healthy society's points of view the Anuvrat of Non-violence is extremely important. It is precisely because the seed of violence is there that it springs up whenever it gets an occasion to do so. The result is the outburst of riots and acts of vandalism.
Violence assumes many forms, one dangerous form being hatred.
It is spurred by egoism. For the same reason violence grew in the name of religion. Innumerable pages of history are smeared with blood let in the name of religion. Religion shorn of morality encouraged sectarian bigotry. Religion was pushed into the background and sectarianism gained ascendancy, just the reverse of what should have been.