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There's a name for this sort of phenomenon... https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/242/escape-goat/ https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/242/escape-goat/

• toyg 8mo ago
  > one of two goats that was chosen by lot to be sent alive into the wilderness, the sins of the people having been symbolically laid upon it, while the other was appointed to be sacrificed Let me get this straight: in the Bible, the scapegoat does survive, while the "pure" goat that did nothing wrong gets killed? That's... messed up, even for a tribal rite.