Comment Re:Be consistent (Score 1) 56
Per etymonline.com:
victim (n.)
mid-15c., "sacrificial animal, living creature killed and offered as a sacrifice to a deity or supernatural power, or in the performance of a religious rite;" from Latin victima "sacrificial animal; person or animal killed as a sacrifice," a word of uncertain origin.
The point is that either you accept that words can change in meaning over time or you don't, but to allow semantic drift for victim and not for survivor is inconsistent.