Of course it's possible to troll at a much less violent level, simply by stalking through internet communities where people might be expected to think in a particular way, and saying things that will wind them up.
Such unrest, albeit to a much less violent degree than threatened by the Real I.R.A., has already been raging in Greece, where prime minister George Papandreou is sticking firmly to a policy of austerity in the face of that country's severe economic woes.
The eruption was followed by a period of much less violent, lava producing eruptions.
From a Christian point of view, however, it certainly seems to mean that open confrontation, much less violent opposition, against an unjust regime is not an absolute duty.
Not to imply that those descended from Genghis Khan are violent, such people also descend from a large number of other, probably much less violent people.
In fact, the only thing that really marks The Girl in the Spider's Web as being the work of an impostor is that it is so much less violent than the original books, which were very violent indeed.
"I preferred his earlier books, which were much less violent.
However, the protests were much less violent than the scenes witnessed at recent economic conferences.
Whereas, by contrast, tax-avoiding Greek doctors have committed a grand fraud on Greece's state coffers and drawn little by way of censure, much less violent abuse.
Perennial hotspots such as Angola, Chad, Eritrea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are quiet, leaving millions better off, and even Congo, Somalia and Sudan are much less violent than they used to be.
One of the bigger red herrings in the raw debate over the destruction of Hatem Ben Arfa's season, if not his career, is that football today is much less violent than it was, say, 30 or 40 years ago.
