• Talcosis@lemmy.zip
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      1 month ago

      Bit like saying airlines are violent because the first passenger planes were based on military bombers.

      That analogy is backwards, because dynamite was developed for civilian use and then found military application, while big planes were developed to drop more bombs and then found use carrying people.

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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      Not my fault the folks who came up with the prize shoved peace into the name, just noting that the invention of dynamite is 100 percent of great enough importance to earn a price being named after the inventor. Personally I think we should name each fields prize after a notable and respected person within the field for example Curie prize of nuclear physics, Sagan prize of astronomy, Darwin prize of biology, Tolkien prize of English literature et cetera. Fuck you Fritz Haber, you don’t get a prize you may have fed more than have ever died since civilization but mustard gas is horrifying get fucked.