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in reply to a message by LMS
I just want to point out again, although I know you're now way off topic, and getting gratuitously gruesome - there's no reason to believe Edison wished to torture people to death. He wanted to scare people away from a technology that competed with what he was selling, and apparently was rather insensitive by modern standards. Associating his last name with electrocution is totally optional and IMO would be weird.
- mirfak
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Yes, but people will associate him with it if they know anything about Edison. I would find it really odd to name a kid Edison, knowing those things. Just as I would have a problem naming my kid Adolph, Vick, or Lenin. Yah, Adolph made art and the autobahn...and also concentration camps and nazism, Vick was a great football player...but also an animal abuser, and Lenin is praised by many for his revolutionization of his country...despite it leading to the deaths of many.
I just wouldn't use a name that is so heavily tied to one individual who may also be known for many terrible things. Whats wrong with Thomas? At least then it won't be linked to Edison.
I just wouldn't use a name that is so heavily tied to one individual who may also be known for many terrible things. Whats wrong with Thomas? At least then it won't be linked to Edison.
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