Except it's not a recent thing. My grandmother, a wonderful woman from the mountains of North Carolina sat me down ~35 years ago and explained what an accident was -and was not - after I did something mmmm less than smart -- that it's a chance event, something that's bound to happen; it's inevitable; it's not something that could ever be completely prevented -- and that's has stuck with me over the years.
Referring to something as an "accident" linguistically (big word of the day) absolves someone of their responsibility in the incident - so we need to own our responsibility when we screw shit up.
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