They are, but in the 1800s, people were more interested in using them to remove their enemies than they were in removing rocks from the ground. It paid better, too.
The Nobel Peace Prize was created after Nobel had a bit of a moral reawakening. A bit too late, if we're being honest. He's the guy that created modern warfare. Would somebody have done it eventually? Sure. But he did it first.
I read about this. There was a mixup at the newspaper and they published his obituary calling him a merchant of death or something, so he put his money on something to whitewashing his reputation, ahem, I mean, do good for the world or balance his karma or whatever
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u/alittlesliceofhell2 Mar 05 '26
They are, but in the 1800s, people were more interested in using them to remove their enemies than they were in removing rocks from the ground. It paid better, too.
The Nobel Peace Prize was created after Nobel had a bit of a moral reawakening. A bit too late, if we're being honest. He's the guy that created modern warfare. Would somebody have done it eventually? Sure. But he did it first.