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Just wondering if anyone takes a very strong stand on this. Example things / reasons that come to my mind can range among:

-- Reports of Middle East countries detaining people for things they were unaware of, preventing departure of "indentured servants", lack of due process. (example in the extreme: the "1 poppyseed" story)

-- Disagreeing with a country's law on same sex marriage or relations

-- Florida's stand your ground law that you might get mistakenly shot under

-- A country economically or politically oppressing a group of people

I'm sure that any person might have a list of countries they are less interested in, because of things like this. I'm curious, does anyone here more actively avoid, or refuse to be sent for business to any such place because of reasons like this?

Just curious to know whether people do this, and how they think through it.


(I myself, in more FT fashion, only ever swore to myself that I'd never transit through the UK again because of the incredible ticket taxes starting when I was a student, but had to give that one up pretty quickly for business reasons).