Words mean things.
Or, so I hear.
The Root of the Problem
Victim.
from
victima.
Latin,
the creature killed
offering
to a deity
in a religious rite,
perhaps from
vicis.
Latin,
in the notion of
an exchange with the gods,
as in
vicarious.
from
weik.
Proto-
Indo-
European,
in the sense of
to conquer,
as in
evict.
convict.
vanquish.
Victory.
in wordy wordiness,
Walter