Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh View Post
You schooled me on it years ago and subsequent readings about Nobel make it clear that your interpretation of things was spot on target.


I think Nobel was a good bit hypocritical given his personal success story (though perhaps remorseful might be equally true) and that his peace prize is far too much of a "Let's all sing Kumbaya" process to actually have any value, but I do acknowledge it's stated purpose and parameters. It's not like they hide anything.
Hypocritical isn't a word fitting Nobel. Remorseful definitely is. He had a change of mind in his later years, similar to a 60-year old born again christian. The anti-war movement was surprisingly radical in the late 19th century, and he was convinced of their arguments. "Unilateral disarmament" was his ideal for peace, and it is this the peace prize was set up to create(not just reward). In the last decades, there have been some weird prizes, and the peace prize has branched out a little from that ideal. However, the weird prizes, in regards to Nobel, are not the usualy suspects. The EU, Kissinger, Arafat/Perez and such definitely deserved the prize. Ebadi and Karman? Probably not.