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The Nobel peace prize cannot be given to someone who rebrands the ministry of defence to the ministry of war and proclaims on a stage that he hates his enemies.
by 9dev 1y ago
The Nobel peace prize cannot be given to someone who rebrands the ministry of defence to the ministry of war and proclaims on a stage that he hates his enemies. These things are mutually exclusive.
- eru 1y agoWhy? Do they have rules against that?
- 9dev 1y agoThere doesn't need to be. Basic dignity and logical thinking tell you that an award for honest efforts to facilitate peace awarded to MLK and Mother Teresa cannot be awarded to someone like Donald Trump. And you see that obviously the Nobel committee shares this opinion, which is why he luckily did not receive it.
- ReptileMan 1y agoHave you checked some of the winners? Arafat is there and so are Kissinger - the napalm sticks on kids guy and Obama - the guy that shot hospitals and weddings in Afghanistan. Trump will fit right in.
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- eru 1y agoMother Teresa made a fetish out of suffering..
- throw101010 1y agoAnd arguably it should not be given to someone who requests/asks/begs for it constantly and openly. It would brign about all sorts of bad incentives in something that should be a reward for good intentions and efforts.
- 9dev 1y agoThat, too, and heaps of reasons more.
- card_zero 1y agoGo on ..? On the face of it, a prize for holding back from being an asshole seems like a good thing, and perhaps a more worthwhile incentive than a prize for saints who would have been extremely virtuous anyway.
- throw101010 1y agoIncentivizing foreign interventions in conflicts "just" to earn a prize and risking to aggravate a situation/conflict/war does not sound good at all to me. It's not about rewarding saints, it's about rewarding people who do genuine efforts to bring peace in this world. You wouldn't want to incentivize a reckless vigilante just because some of the times it might lead to a desired outcome, disregarding all the times they'd get it wrong and would cause injustices (leading to more chaos, and not peace) just in their selfish pursuit of accolades and prizes. Trump is openly mentioning that what he's doing right now is worth a prize, can't get closer to doing it "for the prize". He exaggerates all his accomplishment (no he did not end 7, 8, 9, etc. wars... barely even one). All of this is done/said for one purpose, and it's not actually peace. It's one thing you can't reproach to him, he is pretty transparent in his intent when you give him a microphone. Do you think he will lose sleep over the peace in the middle east failing (once again)... or do you think he will care more about not getting the prize he literally mentions every time he's questioned about a war?
- unsupp0rted 1y agoOr to somebody who makes dynamite
- cheema33 1y agoNot only that. He has threatened to militarily invade countries like Canada and Greenland just because he wants what they have. He also asked his supporters to punch his critics in the face and offered to pay their legal fees.
- ksynwa 1y agoBut then how will the world learn of his peaceful ways by force?
- groundzeros2015 1y agoIt’s about words then not outcomes? What if calling it “war” made it less violent?