solbt@feddit.org to Today I learned@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month agoTIL about The Nobel Prize Winner Who Destroyed 40,000 Mindswww.missedhistory.comexternal-linkmessage-square5linkfedilinkarrow-up126file-text
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minus-squareNonconfrontational@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 month agoWhat about the guy it’s named after, who’s invention killed tens of millions of people?
minus-squareeldavi@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoOr the hundreds of people it’s been awarded to despite all the bombings that they did
minus-squareactionjbone@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoOr the billions of people who DON’T have a prize named after themself.
minus-squareBrokkr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 month agoSupposedly he was quite upset about that and created a prize to honor people who contributed the “greatest benefit on mankind”. Some consider it a rather noble use of his fortune. However, this story may be apocryphal.
What about the guy it’s named after, who’s invention killed tens of millions of people?
Or the hundreds of people it’s been awarded to despite all the bombings that they did
Or the billions of people who DON’T have a prize named after themself.
Supposedly he was quite upset about that and created a prize to honor people who contributed the “greatest benefit on mankind”. Some consider it a rather noble use of his fortune. However, this story may be apocryphal.