Collateral Damage is frequently used as a military term, where non-combatants are unintentionally killed or wounded as a result of the attack on legitimate enemy targets.
The combatants were Missy, who resented Dale for his distrust of her daughter, Baylor, and his constant policing of the tribe's rice, and Dale, who begrudged the ex-Hunahpus every extra portion of rice that Missy served to them.
Battle lines were drawn, allies secured, and faster than you can say "self-centered bossy bitch" and "that guy picking on my kid" it was time for the first formal skirmish of their campaign.
Dale's daughter, Kelley, non-combatant, resident peacemaker, and the only member of her two-person troop to decline to engage in perpetuating the hostilities, was eliminated in the spirit rather than the letter of the notion of collateral damage, since the demise of her Survivor life had been intentional.
Apparently, the combatants deemed a legitimate attack on one another to be too risky and targeted one another's offspring instead.
I doubt that will be the last violation of the rules of war.
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