“We cannot accept the very idea of Ruben’s existence. We deny it. We do not accept that such a person can exist.

A person who can earn a lot of money honestly, remain a man with sparkling eyes and pure thoughts, walk without guards, sit at the table with “commoners” without considering them as such, shake hands with the Pope and the Prince of Great Britain without having even a ghost of a thought of groveling before them, spend a lot of his own money and energy on projects that correspond to his values and not to his own benefit. We cannot accept that a person can have great knowledge and not stop developing, be able to create strong relationships, be generous, be real.

And worst of all, we do not want to recognize that a person can voluntarily endanger his life and the life of his family. Voluntarily. How can a huge number of successful people, who have made the most of donations in the terrible 2020 or 2023, recognize that there is a person who acted in such a way? How to accept that he sent his own son to serve in the army of Artsakh? No. It is easier for us to say that the son was just chilling in a sanatorium, not serving, and Ruben has just negotiated everything with either the Russians, or the British, or the aliens and Ilon Musk, and he will soon be released and given power over planet Earth, planet Saturn and half of Mars in addition.

We are all sinners, we are all mortal and we will all stand trial. And there will be no way to hide anything. Not a gray hair with paint, not a pimple with powder, not a hole in the conscience with money. You see, every man is just a man. Everyone has been given something and not given something. And I am not devaluing anyone’s actions by comparing them to Ruben’s. Everyone will be asked according to their abilities. Well, that is the whole point, to accept that we are different. And that there is someone who is cooler than you. Just cooler. Just the scale is different”.