Just so I understand you... someone who has a lot of money, made in via Capitalism is automatically off the list?
I don't disagree that Bono has a big ego, nor that he craves attention... he is brimming wiht mea culpa on these issues.
I don't get the idea that Bono is on that list of noms because he "drop a couple pennies to the dollar while they snort coke off of the dash of their 62K car" and a reading something like that just shows me you don't know what you are talking about...
The guy is rich, the guy is famous. Are you suggesting that just because he has this going for him, anything he does for the betterment of the world is tainted. Let's just say, for sake of arguement, that he managed to convince some world leader to spend an extra 100 million on the Aids crisis in Africa... would the fact that he has money and fame make those people less better off? Hell no.
As for your list of Nobel Laureates... you were a bit selective no? Where idoes it say you have to "suffer" to win this prize?
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The ways and means to achieve peace are as diverse as the individuals and organizations rewarded with the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Looking at their list, some other interesting winners: Jimmy Carter (Hey! he has money...), Yasser Arafat (isn't he a terrorist?), Lech Welesa (isn't he just the head of Union?), Henry Kissinger (the biggest joke on the list)...
My point isn't to belittle other members of this august list (except for Kissinger and Arafat... they really are bastards). I am pretty sure that in the year they won, they did something to further the cause of peace that was greater than anyone else in that year...
If Bono is deemed to have done something more that the other 165 people on that list, I say bully for him.