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[QUOTE="David Tallan, post: 800707, member: 31995"] There is judgement and there is judgement. People can do their pilgrimage how they like. They can take buses, taxis and airplanes or walk or bicycle or hitchhike or any combination of these. They can transport their luggage or carry it on their backs or push it in a cart or have a friend or employee carry it for them. They can stay at any albergue or casa rural or hotel that will have them. They can eat communal meals that they cook with fellow pilgrims or pilgrim menus in bars and restaurants or a la carte dining in nice restaurants or hotels or subsist entirely on bocadillos if that is their preference. They can travel alone or with family and/or friends that they bring with them or friends or "Camino family" that they meet on the Camino and with or without animal companions. They can travel without anything electronic, or with a phone, and/or camera, or with a computer or a whole panapoly of electronic devices. Upon arrival in Santiago de Compostela, they can ask for a Compostela or a Certificate of Welcome or "solo sello" or not visit the Pilgrim's Office at all. They can then proceed to Finisterre and/or Muxia however they wish or not at all. I will not judge them for any of these choices. No one has a moral right to do so. However, those who are giving to pilgrims can decide which pilgrims they wish to give to. The Pilgrim's Office can say "We only give Compostelas to pilgrims who have walked this much in these routes." It is not wrong for them to do so. It is their gift to give and they can choose to whom to give it. Similarly, albergues operated by volunteers offering accommodations at subsidized rates (or donativo) are also offering gifts to pilgrims. They can say "We are for walking pilgrims" or "Pets are not allowed" or "We do not accept backpacks that are shipped ahead." It is their moral right to decide to whom they wish to offer their gifts. (Although, if they turn away a pilgrim for a choice that was medically necessary, I might say it was their right but not a moral one. :) .) [/QUOTE]
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