In Both Cases, Your Life is Disrupted: Pashinyan

Recently, I watched a conversation online where a participating professor presented an interesting perspective on the phenomenon of "ethics." He viewed ethics as a component of security. What follows from this is that adherence to ethics is a factor in ensuring safety, while violations of ethics generate threats.

Indeed, if you do not maintain ethical norms in your interactions and life, it will provoke a reaction from the subjects whose ethics you have violated. This has been conveyed by RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in a post on his Facebook page.

“Let me give a specific example: if you insult or harm someone verbally or physically, they may retaliate at least with an insult, inflicting harm in return, and the further development of events could lead to violence, possibly resulting in casualties. It does not matter whether you are the killer or the victim; in both cases, your life is disrupted,” he wrote.

The scenario described above is, of course, an extreme case that I bring as the sharpest example. And taking various situations into account, this applies to individuals, groups, societies, and states alike. The esteemed professor considered the lack of a clear system of ethics or its non-observance as part of a self-destruct mechanism, based on the same reasoning mentioned earlier. This is true for individuals, groups, communities, and states.

Moreover, all these cases equally pertain to both external and internal relationships, starting from the family. If you have an extramarital relationship, it generates very specific risks, both within your family and outside of it (in these cases, it may refer at least to moral self-destruction). If you are involved in corruption, it generates risks for you, your family, your environment, society, and the state. If a public group feels unrestrained by ethics, it can generate intra-community tensions. In the same way, it can create external tensions. And so on.

Therefore, it seems convincing that ethics is a significant component of security. If there are no ethical balances at the individual, group, societal, and state levels in our country, it will generate significant external and internal risks. More precisely, these risks have long been generated, and according to the esteemed professor’s formula, the activated mechanism of self-destruction may testify to them.

This issue, of course, cannot be given an absolute solution. It is not possible to change anything with one or several posts. First, it is necessary to have a discussion on this topic and come up with a formula. At this moment, I am writing this to affirm this agenda in our public, political, and state life,” he concluded.