Cage eggs.
Not much else though.
I refuse to own a gun.
I refuse to harm a sentient animal . . . except to protect a human.
I refuse to attend a religious service of any kind.
If we were at a bar, having a beer, and a stranger attacked you with a knife, I’d reflexively come to your defense.
If I killed the attacker, would you be pissed off at me?
I don’t either: those exceptional circumstances being:
– I will be driving.
– The beer is warm.
– The beer is IPA.
– The beer is beer.
I don’t patronize companies whose owners are racist, antisemitic, homophobic, etc.
I don’t eat meat.
I never stand by if someone starts talking loud and agitated. That is the first step to losing self-control, and I will generally go up and say “Is everything all right here?” That often defuses the situation.
I concur.
With the added stipulation of “refusing to perform an obligation,” I conscientiously object to the drug laws of my nation. If caught violating them, I will accept the legal penalties without complaint, but it would not deter me from violating them in the future, as I see them as essentially unjust.
Don’t buy from WalMart or any of it’s sister stores.
Don’t have any guns, and do not allow anyone on my property who has a gun.
I do not attend any religious ceremonies with the exception of weddings where my absence would be noted.
I do not listen/watch any new organizations that use debate as a communication method. I want facts that are represented as facts, and opinions that are represented as opinions. Blur them into talking heads talking to each other, and I refuse to watch manufactured conflict.
No, Pepsi is not the same as Coke. If you don’t have Coke, don’t suggest that your different thing is the same thing.
I eventually stopped contributed to any kids’ school fundraisers that didn’t return 100% of the profits to the cause in question. I don’t care to support the business model of using free child labor to hawk your wrapping paper or cookie dough or whatever. The peer pressure and coercion that go on with these campaigns is also not pretty. I’d rather just write a check.
I make an occasional exception for Girl Scout cookies because they aren’t allowed by the organization to fundraise in any other way.
Very long list. I’m a stubborn person with strong opinions. Some of them I might tuck away and wince internally and shut up about if, let’s say, someone I cared about personally was celebrating a major personal triumph and invited a dozen of us to eat at some establishment I was boycotting, that sort of thing. You know, let it be about them and their triumphant moment instead of making the moment about me and my list of grievances.
Other things I’m utterly inflexible about.
In terms of refusing to doing a thing that I was more or less supposed to do, I would not take people to a bullfight even though it was my job to take people to a bullfight (I was in charge of a group of people on a visit to Madrid and while it’s not specifically in my job description to “take people to a bullfight” it’s pretty clear that it was my job to “take people to notable things in Madrid based on what they wanted to do.”)
It was an anticlimatic ending, because I work for a university and people are generally into conscientious objecting as a concept, so once I said I wasn’t going to do it, it wasn’t as if there were any repercussions.
I’m curious about why you chose these three.
I have a personal rule about cleaning your own messes. I will not hire house cleaners.
I will not hunt animals as long as I can buy my meat at the grocery store.
Vote.
I could probably populate a whole “ask the…” about my refusal to pay attention to any and all things political but, long story short, my one vote doesn’t count, politics itself disgusts me, and nothing will directly affect me anyhow.
(And if it does I’ll certainly not know it!)
I don’t use illegal drugs and have little sympathy for those who do but justify it by saying they should be legal.
I don’t pirate music or software and have little sympathy for those who do but justify it by saying it should be free.
You may feel differently when you are 85 with arthritis and chronic fatigue; my parents sure did.
Not if it happens like that, no. You’re not a subscriber to my value system, you’re responsible for your own actions.
You could do what my wife does and clear for a few hours before they arrive.
No shopping at Hobby Lobby.
Businesses I won’t patronize:
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[li]Walmart and its associated stores[/li][li]Chick-fil-A[/li][li]Hobby Lobby[/li][/ul]
This has been a gradual thing for me, but I think I’m also done going to zoos.
I spent way too many hours as a child going door-to-door selling fundraising items, and they are some of my least fond memories. Expecting me to buy something simply by placing your kid’s catalog in the workplace lunchroom isn’t going to work; conversely, being approached by a kid who directly asks for support, including an explanation of what the funds will be used for, is always a guaranteed sale.