Approach to any phenomenon can be of two types: 1) political, 2) human. Let us suppose a certain official or a rich person has had a crush. If you prioritize the political approach, then either loud or just in the bottom of your heart you will rejoice the news thinking, “you deserve it, you thief”. If the priority for you is the human one, then you will think or say, “he is a human and has got into a trouble, he needs to be supported”.
The first approach I consider to be bizarre, and unhealthy, because I am not a “fighter” in nature, I have no “strata enemies”, I do not care about the destruction or salvation of the nation, I want everyone to be healthy and happy regardless of their material abilities, social status, or political views. When there was an assassination attempt on one of our well-known political figures, Paruyr Hayrikyan, his political opponents began to claim that he himself organized an assassination attempt against him. And then, when the state sent him to be treated, they complained the state’s money was being wasted. In both cases, the approach was not human, it was political. When it comes to human health, I consider such talks to be inappropriate.
The politics sometimes reveals the shadowy, non-luminous aspects of the human souls. When a fundraising for a wounded soldier’s treatment was announced (and it was explained why it was not possible to organize it with the state money), people engaged in a vigorous political activity because the call for fundraising was done by the Minister of Defence. But again, when it comes to the health of a human being, a young man, a soldier, all the other conditions are secondary to me. And there are thousands of other reasons to criticize the Defence Minister.
I absolutely do not like the idea of the armed attack on the police regiment that a group of men committed in summer, 2016. I have written about the public danger of such actions and their glorification many times already. But at the moment, our citizens who appear to be defendants now, for me, first of all, are people who are in trouble, and approaches towards their lives and health should be human. Unfortunately, the approach of state bodies towards them is often not human.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
