Should you also stop saying “goodbye” since the origin of the word is ‘God be with you?’ Or stop called celestial bodies “planets” because they do not in fact ‘wander?’ Good to be rational, less good to enshrine rationality against contamination by humanity and language and culture and history.
Here is a rational take on luck (4 page PDF, recommended)...
Should you also stop saying “goodbye” since the origin of the word is ‘God be with you?’ Or stop called celestial bodies “planets” because they do not in fact ‘wander?’ Good to be rational, less good to enshrine rationality against contamination by humanity and language and culture and history.
Here is a rational take on luck (4 page PDF, recommended)...
http://richardwiseman.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/the_luck_factor.pdf
And we should stop calling “Wednesday” like that, because it’s named after Odin!
(FWIW, I didn’t come up with this one myself; it’s the standard retort when someone proposes to ban AD and BC from Wikipedia in favour of CE and BCE.)
it’s a question of live vs. dead metaphors
The original post strikes me as making a huge mountain out of a molehill as well.