Since 2018, there has been a decline in values in the Armenian public. The society of Armenia has been divided into several layers, including social, worldview, genealogical, value-based, etc. It would be wrong to claim that until 2018 everything was smooth, the society was united, and there were no acute social contradictions, sense of injustice and lack of trust in the state and in each other.

There was definitely distrust and all those above-mentioned occurrences. But there were also unifying values, such as statehood, Armenia-Artsakh-Diaspora trinity, independence, and national pride, various spiritual and cultural incentives... Now it is clear that all that was in the past, everything that could unite the society has been devalued, declined and disappeared. Without such unifying knots and principles, there cannot be a political nation.

Currently, the aforementioned factors have been replaced by an amorphous concept of ethnic belonging. Maybe this is one of the reasons why the political units have not been able to set up an agenda in line with the public demand and expectations for a long time or to propose an idea around which the people can gather and rise up. The last such somewhat serious attempts were made by the "Resistance" opposition movement, but they failed to wake up the sleeping spirit of the public.

In general, in addition to any all-national ideas uniting the public, there are also individual values ​​based on purely human relations and national morals, such as honor, morality, dignity, etc., around which people can unite spontaneously or in an organized way due to certain circumstances.

On the actual ground, the most recent example among us is the incident with Gayane Hakobyan, a grief-stricken mother of a soldier killed in the 44-day war in Artsakh, who was detained by the law enforcement agencies on the charge of attempting to “kidnap” the prime minister’s son. On that day, the deceased soldier’s mother participated in a protest action with a group of others who shared the same destiny in the area adjacent to the Court of Appeal of the Republic of Armenia. At that moment, the parents ran into Ashot Pashinyan, the prime minister's son, passing through the area, and started to talk to him. Mrs. Gayane offered her car for a small private chat. Ashot voluntarily got into the car, but shortly, on the way, for some unknown reason, he opened the door on the right side of the car that had slowed down and threw himself out, scratching his leg.

This is the whole story of the "kidnapping." Ashotik submitted a report to the police about the alleged "crime" of being tricked into getting in the car. Based on the testimony of one person, the mother in black was arrested and was “attached” to a provision for accusations carrying between four and eight years in prison and was locked up in the penitentiary. One has to have a very vivid imagination to qualify what had happened as "kidnapping." There were two people in the car: the mother of the deceased serviceman is at the wheel, and the 23-year-old" guy who fought in the war" was on the right side of the same seat. There was no weapon, not even a fork, no blocked door and in general, no crime at all.

Thus, the problem is shifted to the moral dimension. How will society react? Will there be more protests that have been going on for several days demanding the release of the victim's mother? Here one should have a broader view to examine the incident than simply a case between specific people: "fallen soldier’s mother" and "prime minister’s son." The investigator and the prosecutor demanded detention directly from the court, and the judge fulfilled that demand. Now it's time for the public to wake up. Will the public be awakened not by state, national, political agendas, but by purely moral ones?

The detention of this woman hits the personal value system of each of us, the survival instinct, and the possibility of living in the same society with each other. The injustice done to Mrs. Gayane violates the fundamental principles that keep us human and not just breathing living beings.