Some how, we adults, as teachers, parents, neighbors, and even strangers, need to increase our vigilance for the signs of juvenile aberrant behavior, and to speak up when we see it. More importantly, we need to be ever cognizant of the reality that we are the prime examples for our children. We set societies criteria through our acts of kindness and through our acts of violence.
We especially need to teach our young that violence, in all its forms: attack, anger, greed, or jealously, is not the adjudicator of conflict as the fantasy of cartoons and movie fiction suggest. It is the creator of conflict. It is we, as individuals, as families, as communities who must lay down the weapons of fear, that our children emulate, and take up the powerful effective swords of principle, truth, tolerance, and compassion.
The youth of today seek not only a personal and generational identity, as all young do, but deep within them, as in all, they quest for the elixir of transcendence, a feeling of creative grace that precipitates into the peace of accomplishment. The delusionary addictive adrenaline of violence can not give anyone peace, it can only give emptiness in the spirit of being.
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I agree with you that each of us have a responsibility to the young. It is clear that we as a society have only two choices when it comes to preparing our young for their role as future leaders. One, we can set positive examples for them so that they may grow and become productive citizens. Two, we can do nothing, like a good many of us do, and we will still be responsible for them via the Criminal Justice System or through our individual state-operated Social Service Divisions. The choice is ours, either way, and there is no way to escape responsibility.
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