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Originally Posted by epchick
So if your saying there is a difference, what about us who feel he flat out does not deserve it BECAUSE there are people that are more deserving (can't even say equally, because he shouldn't have been nominated in the first place)?
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I think that saying that he flat out does not deserve it is arrogant and presumptuous. It implies that everyone that has been a part of this process from the nomination to the final vote is some kind of moron because they came to a different conclusion and both nominated him and chose him to receive the prize. It is arrogant because these people are not arbitrarily chosen, nor are they so ill-informed as to make a fundamentally unsound choice. It is presumptuous because none of us are completely privy to the deliberation process, so we don't know why he was chosen where another was not. Why is it so impossible to grant the Nobel Foundation the same sort of privilege that most of us insist upon for our own organizations.
I think that what I have said stands. I don't know how to explain it any differently.