# What do you refuse to do out of principle?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 6, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-refuse-to-do-out-of-principle/549428 "2010-08-06T17:56:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-refuse-to-do-out-of-principle/549428/87 "2010-08-08T05:45:49Z")

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> [@Crafter\_Man](#):
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> I refuse to own a Japanese car.
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> I know it’s not logical. I know many Japanese cars have more U.S. made parts vs. their “American” counterparts. But I still have a hang-up over them. I know it’s irrational, but I just can’t get over what the Japs did to us in WWII.

**Moderator Note** : 1941 called and wants its racist epithet back. Good lord, **Crafter\_Man** , you’ve been here long enough to know we frown on racial epithets around here.

And while it’s fair to say they provided the initial provocation, we more than paid them back, destroying cities and annihilating far more of their civilians than they ever did of ours.

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