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THE INHUMANITY OF CARDS AGAINST HUMANITY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2018

Samuel Director
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Abstract

In general, it is morally wrong to joke about the suffering of a category of people while in front of a person who fits into this category. I argue that, when people play the game Cards Against Humanity, it is likely that they do this very action. Thus, I conclude that it is morally wrong to play Cards Against Humanity.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 17 , Issue 48 , Spring 2018 , pp. 39 - 50
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2018 

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2 According to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), ‘only 344 out of every 1,000 sexual assaults are reported to police. That means about 2 out of 3 go unreported’. ‘The Criminal Justice System: Statistics’, Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, <https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system> [accessed 2016]. It is important for the reader to know that RAINN did not collect these figures but rather reports them from other sources. To illustrate the total numbers, The Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that ‘on average, an estimated 211,000 rapes and sexual assaults went unreported to police each year between 2006 and 2010’. ‘Nearly 3.4 Million Violent Crimes Per Year Went Unreported to Police From 2006 To 2010’, The Bureau of Justice Statistics (2012), <http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/press/vnrp0610pr.cfm>.

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4 The ‘Date Rape’ card has been discontinued by Cards, but it still exists in all decks that were made prior to this discontinuation.

5 Breiding, et al., 4.

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7 ‘Child Maltreatment 2014’, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Administration for Children and Families Administration on Children, Youth and Families Children's Bureau (2016), <http://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/cb/cm2014.pdf>, p 36.

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