If I want clean air in my room, I should not smoke. Rather than to smoke and complain about polluted air. If I am against violence, I should not shout to my wife, children, and employees. Raising voice is also violence and not a feature of a “good guy”. Thinking otherwise, I actually justify any violence. If I am against corruption, I should not write articles for money. And so on.
No one is perfect in person, the state order in any corner of the world is not perfect too. We must bear it in mind when justifying or condemning something. The state order is formed not by the will of functionaries but by the convictions and conducts of every citizen. Generally, people abstractly are shouting, “plunderers”, “thieves”, “bloodsuckers.” But when it comes to their relative, friend and neighbor, they say, “good for him, he is dexterous, he has a keen mind, you also can be keen, you also can do it.” Also, sometimes they add, “a country that has no owner and no law, we have to take care of ourselves as much as we can.” Is there a doubt that people talking like this when getting into law enforcement, tax and customs agencies, become a minister or a lawmaker, will behave exactly the way as the “plunderers” and “thieves” criticized by them behave?
There is a strongly pronounced intolerance among Armenian society towards homosexuals (whether it is good or bad, it does not matter in this case). Therefore, these people, as a rule, are afraid to confess their orientation. But instead, there is no such attitude towards corrupt officials who are proud to demonstrate their palaces and “boxes.” If such an attitude happens, if they become a public “outcast”, there will be no need for an additional “anti-corruption agency”.
Here is what I have read recently why there is practically no corruption in Finland. 1/ Finns do not seek luxury, they think that only a complete idiot can love having a golden toilet bowl. 2/ They know that becoming rich at the expense of their own people means that to hate these people. 3/ They are convinced that stealing budget money is the same as stealing their own children and grandchildren. 4/ They are confident that the thief is a coward who is always afraid of being caught. 5/ They believe that “fixing up a job” for their children somehow is harmful to them because it will create problems later on.
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Well, now let’s see which of these 5 points are cordial to our society.
… Our problem becomes deeper also by the fact that many of our thieves somehow have managed to convince themselves that they are not thieves. When a tax-evading oligarch criticizes corrupt officials, he sincerely believes that he is different from these bureaucrats at some point.
