They used to keep fainting goats with more valuable livestock. When a predator would chase after the livestock, the fainting goat would drop, allowing the other livestock to escape. Thus, 'scape goat.
This is my place. These are my words. Sometimes they are pearls of wisdom; other times they are droppings for the scarab to feast upon. Rarely are they personal. Read or don't; comment or don't.
"...Man has the right to write as he will..."
Let this be a forum with which I hopefully explore and come to understand my own True Will.