ZOMBIFY: Scrabble/personal ethics question -- are there words that are permitted for play in Scrabble (or its online variants, the legality of which are not at issue here) which you nevertheless refuse to employ on morals grounds because they're too offensive? Or put another way, should I not have put down a 'J' on a triple-letter, double-wording "jewed" for 62 points, if I believed it was the highest-playing use of my tiles?
[N.B. There are indeed ~200 such words (NSFW) which have been excised from the published Official Scrabble Players Dictionary on the grounds of offensiveness, but which nevertheless appear on the Official Word List for tournament play. More info here.]
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