Well, yesterday I went again to a cockfight.
This time in Dauin where they have a nice new building.
I have been in my life here to one cockfight in Dumaguete, one in Zamboanguita and now one in Dauin.
I go there because one of my workers participates in cockfighting with his cocks he trains himself.
He always asks me to go to his cock fighting and of course to put money on his cocks.
So I did now 3 times.
I always lost money
so I have a good reason now to tell him I will stop with gambling on his cocks because then he will surely loose again !
I promised myself now not to go anymore to a cockfight.
Not that it is because I have such very strong moral objections (I do have some; in general I don't like any fighting, bloody or not, by humans or animals), but because I don't see the fun, even not when I should have won all three times.
But every country has so it's own cultural 'habits' which won't change quickly.
It will surely be a slow process of changing.
Too much interest of people.
We westerners are generally not 'accepting' these bloody games but we westerners had even more cruel games in our history. e.g. the Romans with their gladiators.
And what about that stupid (= MY opinion !) 'modern' version of gladiator fighting like American wrestling or cage fighting? Disgusting for me.
It will take a long time I fear before cockfighting is banned here.