liberty2897
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Thomas Edison was also a proponent of War...
Good thing he lost this one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents
Good quote from his Wiki page:
oops... nobody is perfect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents
Good quote from his Wiki page:
Nonviolence was key to Edison's moral views, and when asked to serve as a naval consultant for World War I, he specified he would work only on defensive weapons and later noted, "I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill." Edison's philosophy of nonviolence extended to animals as well, about which he stated: "Nonviolence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."[87]
oops... nobody is perfect.
However, he is also notorious for having electrocuted a number of dogs in 1888, both by direct and alternating current, in an attempt to argue that the former (which he had a vested business interest in promoting) was safer than the latter (favored by his rival George Westinghouse).[88]