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Old 08-23-10 | 01:12 PM
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I think that a good place to start is by changing the lexicon. Stop calling them "traffic accidents." They are "collisions" at the very least. "He was in a collision" has a different meaning from "He was in an accident." "Accident" implies that no one was to blame. Well, if someone was negligent, it was not an accident, and most collisions are caused by negligence. The few that aren't must be intentional, or vehicular assault.

The problem is that most people drive cars and are deathly afraid of killing somebody thru their own negligence, so it is convenient that a traffic "incident" becomes an "accident." But the first step in change is to take the lexical high ground. Note that the two warring sides in the abortion issue are "Pro-Life" and "Pro-Choice," and not "Anti-abortionists" or "Pro-abortionists". I have always found it amusing that a person who works to improve the conditions of females (often at the expense of males) is called a "feminist," which is viewed as either a positive or neutral term, wherease a person who works to improve the condition of males (often at the expense of females) is called a "male chauvinist," a derogatory term. Women have known from the start that you need to occupy the lexical high ground.

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