[tomNth]

The Nobel Peace Prize is meaningless. No matter who or why and to whome it was given. It has nothing to do with the other Nobel Prizes.

[fhdkweig]

I agree with you that it is not like the other Nobels, but it seems to me that it is only the Peace Prize that really embodies Alfred Nobel's regret in creating a misused weapon.

[tomNth]

But he is not here to give it. Nobel's nobele regret can be misused just like his weapon.

[nephihaha]

The prize for literature has some curious inclusions and omissions.

[estearum]

The Nobel Peace Prize may be meaningless. That the most powerful man in the world has such a juvenile, psychologically rotten obsession with it that he grins ear to ear upon an illegitimate "secondary award" of it is absolutely not meaningless.

[kzrdude]

It also has a different committee awarding it - I guess every prize has - but this one is specifically, as designed, decided by a group of parliamentarians selected out of the Norwegian parliament, generally selecting some older ones and trying to represent every party. It's not academics or specialists in the area of peace and diplomacy.

I would say this is the peace prize's fundamental flaw.

[noosphr]

That's the economics prize.

If Trump really wanted to annoy those people he should start the 'Nobel Memorial Prize by Trump' and award it to himself.

It's about as legitimate as the one in economics.

[lostlogin]

> The Nobel Peace Prize is meaningless.

No! It’s a warning sign.

[tim333]

The last one given to someone who didn't win it went to Goebbels, the Nazi war enthusiast. I hope it isn't too accurate a warning sign.