I think that Edison’s actions during this time were extremely unethical. All those dogs that were killed did not prove whether it was painless or not. Edison stated that he was an expert electrician, which he was, but how would he know how much electricity it would take to kill a human without pain and instantly? He would have to experiment with humans or animals. I also think that Edison’s views on this topic were obviously biased because he had his direct current company. Technically, both forms of electricity could kill a man, but one was stronger and could therefore do it with less volts. This time period where the war of the currents occurred seemed to go against every code of ethics that I have seen for engineers. Safety for the public was on every code of ethics I saw, yet Edison was trying to do the complete opposite.
