There are questions that require simple solutions, or as the parliamentarian Hrant Bagratyan presented yesterday illustratively, an eleven-metre penalty kick rather than a complicated multi-step combinations. Pertaining to the law on “Turnover” tax (which the parliamentarian was talking about), it is true. Pertaining to the small and medium businesses, it is just enough to control the circulation rather than the expenses, it’s a textbook truth. In addition, once you give the tax inspector one more chance to enter people’s stall, it inevitably will cause the inspector to detect a mistake of a comma (“well, have I wasted my time to come here for nothing?”), and afterwards, he will either fine you, or will demand a bribe for not fining. No need making people, who keep a family, get into an additional stress.
There are questions that cannot be solved by one “penalty”. We cannot make peace with one decree, or establish peace with Azerbaijan or normalize our relationship with Turkey by the law. Those who say that it is possible, they look like the healers who claim that it is possible to heal cancer with the help of peas.
People who say that all Armenia’s defects can be treated through a revolution are guided by approximately the same logic. (In fact, some people say that the rebellion should be carried out on April 24. Indeed, it is a very convenient day to slaughter each other). Of course, the temptation is great – to solve the issue by one “penalty” or one strike of guillotine. But firstly, the experience shows that the matter usually is not limited to one strike. Secondly, it seems to me that the revolutionary rhetoric (it is clear that the case will not go beyond the rhetoric) arises destructive instincts in people, aggression, jealousy, envy and revenge. While, I see the outcome first of all in raising just the opposite qualities in me – kindness, tolerance, humility, and try to disseminate my example over as many people as possible. This, in my opinion, should also be the basis of any political struggle.
…When in 1794, the revolutionist Danton was executed by his former revolutionary friends, he was swearing on the whole way to the scaffold, and when he was passing by the house of Robespierre, he shouted, “Maximilian, you are going to follow the same way soon.” So, naturally, it happened. Two years before it, revolutionists executed Louis the 16th to death. Passing along the same way, the king asked the executioner, the person whom he saw last, “My friend, do you have any new from Lapérouse scientific expedition.” Here is the difference between the revolutionists and non-revolutionists.
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ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
