No one has ever suggested before that the flaming bull reacts with anything other than fear. I was just curious to know how he could feel celebrated.
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/flaming-bull.12555/#post-83369
Commendable try, Falcon. But I hope you are not waiting around for a mature and reasoned discussion on animal cruelty or cultural traditions.
This thread immediately devolved into chest-thumping and taunts.
It is sad that, no matter where one's ultimate opinion on this issue falls, that someone (a peregrino, no less) can't take a moment to reflect on the idea that causing intense suffering (fear and pain) to a living creature for entertainment purposes might not be the best that humans have to offer this world.
I guess I am naive in that I will never understand how another human can look at the pictures in the link posted by the OP and not be moved to tears by the obvious, intentionally inflicted suffering on display. I want to believe humans are better than that, that we are capable of a greater degree of compassion and empathy, and that we have a higher purpose in life than partying by getting drunk and setting an animal on fire.
Instead, we make steak jokes. Even on a board dedicated to the inner and outer journey of walking pilgrimage..... we make steak jokes.
I have a low, low tolerance for unkindness. A couple of days ago, I was distressed to witness an attack here on a fellow peregrina that involved repeated derogatory name-calling and attacking her appearance. I thought then that this forum sometimes reminds me that there is nothing special about being a peregrino. It is just humans walking in the same physical direction. Next year, I hope to meet and walk with some of the kind ones, and keep better company than I have seen on display in the last few days.