That's why we started using "
Modern Sporting Rifle". Today, only anti-gun uses "assault weapon".
Mhmm. It works pretty good, too.
Regarding abortion, calling the ZEF a 'child' will mark you as an enemy of pro-choice. Go ahead and try it sometime...try making a pro-choice argument, but change the word you use to refer to the ZEF to 'child', keeping everything else the same.
I know this because I was there early in this forum's history when "ZEF" was generally accepted by both sides as acceptable nomenclature.
Many species use calls, songs, scents...hell even gangs use hand signs...to mark friend from foe. If we were to regard a side of a political position as a micro-culture, it follows that that culture would likewise evolve a way to mark friend from foe.
Humans aren't as evolved a species as we like to think we are.