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> If there's one job in the world where I'd wait until someone's well out of office before judging their impact on peace, it's the US presidency. Sure, but if
by eru 1y ago
> If there's one job in the world where I'd wait until someone's well out of office before judging their impact on peace, it's the US presidency.
Sure, but if you want your prize to have an impact, you sometimes have to hand it out to hopefuls?
- rkomorn 1y agoI dunno. Do you? Does the Nobel prize have a history of shaping the future? Did winning the Nobel prize make Obama a different president? Was it supposed to? To me, it seemed oddly aspirational, but maybe that's more often the case with the peace prize, too. Also worth noting that the language in the press release [1] and facts page [2] makes it all sound like it was for things already achieved (although maybe that's at odds with "Inspires Hope for a Better Future"), and I'm skeptical of looking at year 1 achievements the job with arguably the most destructive power in the world. It's not a hill I'd fight, let alone die, on, though. :) 1- https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2009/press-release/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2009/press-release/ 2- https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2009/obama/facts/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2009/obama/facts/
- myrmidon 1y agoIf you wanted to avoid "misnominations", you'd be forced to wait until the career of the nominee is over (meaning in many cases: award it posthumously). But the Nobel price explicitly tries to avoid that; hindsight is always gonna be better.
- rkomorn 1y agoYeah. I'm just okay special casing "against" heads of state.
- vjvjvjvjghv 1y agoThat’s not how it works. The prizes are not motivational but for achievement . Otherwise we should give the physics prize to some school kid in the hope of them discovering quantum gravity
- eru 1y agoMaybe. But then why restrict it to only living people?