"If I choose to eat at a restaurant with an explicitly stated dress code, my duty to follow the dress code is in exchange for the expectation of seeing everyone else in the restaurant also follow the dress code (thereby collectively generating a particular visual look). This is non-violent.
Now, if someone shows up not following the dress code, while they are not preventing me from following the dress code myself,
they are depriving me of seeing the visual look generated by everyone in the restaurant following the dress code, which is what I was expecting to get in exchange for following the dress code myself. This is violent.
Compare with speeding drivers. They may claim they are not violent because they are not forcing other drivers to speed. Yet they are depriving other drivers of road conditions where everyone drives below the speed limit, which is what the other drivers were expecting to get in exchange for driving below the speed limit themselves. Thus those who drive over the speed limit are indeed violent.
Someone who dislikes a given dress code/speed limit should choose a different restaurant/road:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/iran/msg15768/#msg15768This is conducive to folkish sorting. Absence of different rules in different locations, on the other hand, undermines folkish sorting."
Exactly! It's that easy!
I would love to see a revival of Authentic Zoroastrianism in a place like Australia or New Zealand.
(Homework: Are usurers violent?)
"I will be posting about his son shortly."
To be fair, Khomeini wasn't too much better (he protected Jews and was funded by Israel!), but he did stand up to the USA and the USSR. Alhamdulillah, Khamenei is better than Khomeini though, especially with the loss of Saddam Hussein.
Saddam Hussein stood up to Israel more, and ultimately was brutally crushed.