What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Richard Hakluyt]

Trump owns a Nobel Peace prize.

Somebody elses but yes. Sort of like how Putin has a Super Bowl ring.

Utterly ridiculous. I have my father's medals in my study, they are a highly-valued possession, but they are about his military service and say nothing about me at all. Trump may as well start collecting medals, he could get all sorts of stuff and become a military hero by his reasoning.

[The Brain]

I think it's a bad thing that the Peace Prize committee has, for a very long time, strayed from its mission. The Peace Prize is about peace. Not freedom, not democracy, not opposition to oppression. All those were very hot topics during Nobel's later life, if he had wanted to create a Prize for those things he would have. I think the peace movement is wrong, but what I think doesn't matter, it's what Nobel wanted in his will that matters. The committe has taken Nobel's name and money and used it for their own personal agendas. This is a bad thing.

A potential counterargument could be "but freedom etc are good things, and improves the chances of peace". Sure, but when you let your own pet areas trump Nobel's will, then you're fine with political winds deciding the Prize. In the not-too-distant future maybe the idea will be "lasting peace is only possible with racial purity, cleaning the gene pool should therefore be rewarded".

There is a cost to ignoring wills. I for one would be reluctant to set up a Prize that I know is likely to be hijacked for other purposes. So we won't see a Brain Prize for Non-Douchery.

[Norgy]

The Peace Prize is worth as much as a Burger King paper crown or the FIFA Peace Prize now.

And The Brain makes some good points: The "larger concept of peace" has been problematic, to say the least. While plenty of good causes have gotten some welcome attention, these causes have had a rather tenuous connection to peace...

[garbon]

And The Brain makes some good points: The "larger concept of peace" has been problematic, to say the least. While plenty of good causes have gotten some welcome attention, these causes have had a rather tenuous connection to peace...

Agreed. However, I'm not all that bothered if people want to deviate from his will. More than a century on, I'm not sure why we should feel obliged to indulge his personal rehabilitation scheme.

[Legbiter]

He seems genuinely happy.



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