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The United States is now the most violent country in the industrialized world, leading the world in homicides, rapes, and assaults. The causes and effects of violent behavior in society are complex and interrelated; much violence results from social injustice prevalent in our society. Among the significant contributors are poverty, substance abuse, unemployment, inadequate or abusive parenting practices, real-life adult models of violent problem-solving behavior, and everyday exposure to violence through modern media. By the age of 18 the average child will have seen 26,000 killings on television. All children today are affected by the violence that pervades our society. As a result, the healthy development of our nation's children is in serious jeopardy, and if we don't act as swiftly as possible the little boy down the street could be the next Eric Harris.
There have been many attempts to protect our youth from violent tendencies, yet we find a lack of resources to execute such goals. This is why I suggest we take a look at the theories from the brilliant mind who brought us Evolution, and Natural Selection. Looking deep in to the Origin of Species we find that to further our selves, and in a whole society there is but one path to take. That path allows only the fittest to survive. I propose that we eliminate violence and all of it's sociological traces by using the best our younger generations have to offer. In fact implementing such ideals into our society is little different from a practice we have done for years. The SAT tests gauge the intellectual worth of our young and assigns them a numeric value. I humbly request that if a students value were to be so low that they would negatively effect our ec ...