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[QUOTE="AuroraPeregrina, post: 1228239, member: 109582"] Well, it is a hard question to answer, because I think there is no objective answer. It depends on the context. For exemple, when it comes to lodging, I kinda understand the volunteers position (as long as they where respectful when they talked to the women): when someone are doing turism, there is a market price for that. Turism is buisness, people who run hotels seek for profit and turists should pay; If you want to travel but don't have much money, thera are options like youth-albergues, B&B, lowcost hotels, camping. Pilgrim-albergues don't seek for profit; it envolves peoples that are there for a comum cause: religious, but not only, and cultural. It is because of that cause that they volunteer, and it is possible for the price to rise down, or even be for donativos. The idea is to aloud more people to achive the goal of pilgrimage doing; if you have enough money, you can pay more; if I don't, you pay less, or even not at all. If pilgrim-albergues start to accept all kind of travellers, they wont be able to survive; it is going to be a bigger demand, and no deliver. It is going to be an unfair competence between pilgrim-albergues (ran by volunteers) and hotels (ran by business people). On the other hand, outside of this specific context (lodging), I don't see the concept of "pilgrim" as something strict. There is no right or wrong. I think there is one thing tough, that caracterize pilgrims: the spirit of the travel is not about (only) the final destination; a pilgrim is not exactly a paying consumer who plays a role in a business; he understand that he gets what it is possible, kind of like a guest in someones house. Pilgrims can plan ahead or not, but even if they plan, they must be open to th idea of unexpected changing of plans. Pilgrims can walk without his backpacks (so far I always caryed mine), but no for a matter of confort; if they have some health issued, is better that they have their backpack delivered than they dont do the pilgrimage at all; but if a pilgrim is healthy enough, they should probably want to cary his load, because that's part of the experience and because it is not about confort and leisure. Finally, I think pilgrims can perfectly not being moved for religious purposes; there can be agnostics ou atheist pilgrims; but there must be some kind of goal other than the "sight seeing". Well, that's want I thing at this moment; but I'm sure that after reading others answering I will have another perpective. Like I said, it is not a simple question. [/QUOTE]
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