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There's two reasons why this argument doesn't make any sense. 1. "Too aggressive" relative to what? There's probably never going to be an absolutely perfect, p
by warent 9y ago
There's two reasons why this argument doesn't make any sense.
1. "Too aggressive" relative to what?
There's probably never going to be an absolutely perfect, peaceful human being, simply due to our evolutionary roots. To suggest that this means we should abandon the peace prize is absurd. There's never going to be some perfect embodiment of peace, but that's not what the peace prize is for.
2. http://www.icanw.org/pledge/ http://www.icanw.org/pledge/
If this list is "bottom-of-the-barrel-scraping" then please, scrape more of the "bottom of the barrel". Would we rather reward someone for managing 100+ nations to sign a treaty like this, or reward someone who posts indignant and borderline self-righteous rants in an internet blog? Again this is a throwback to the above point of relativity.
Bonus point:
The Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Mother Teresa aren't good indicators that this prize has a purpose?
Edit: Added Desmond Tutu above because I'm a big fan
- Osmium 9y ago> "Too aggressive" relative to what? Other humans (Homo not Sapiens). Sadly, we'll probably never know for sure, because it looks like we were responsible for wiping most of them out 10,000s years ago. > Mother Teresa Usually isn't a good example to bring up ... Mother Teresa has had her fair share of controversy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/02/25/why-to-many-critics-mother-teresa-is-still-no-saint/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/02/25... http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2003/10/mommie_dearest.html http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_wor... http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1996/12/19/mother-teresa/ http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1996/12/19/mother-teresa/
- warent 9y agoMother Teresa may have been a poor example, I admittedly don't know that much about her. Thank you for the insight. Though I don't think my post has no merit and warrants downvotes
- Osmium 9y agoDidn't downvote you for the record. If a comment's worth responding to, it doesn't make much sense to me to downvote it (: