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It's entirely up to you what you make of hospitality, as you're the one making the rules here. I would suggest that you remember that the guest-host relationship exerts obligations in both directions, though. You're not, I take it, unilaterally assuming responsibility for all that your guest might do. Your guest has the responsibility of not abusing the trust you've placed in him. Perhaps you could remind him of that, in no uncertain terms. you might consider it a duty to him to show him where he is going wrong.
And so what if you should change the rules as you see fit, in the light of events? You have obligations to yourself also, do you not? To uphold yourself?
As to tradition: the proto-Indo-European roots of 'guest' 'host' and 'hostility' are the same word. This suggests that hospitality (that root again) constituted a protocol by which strangers, rightly suspicious of each other, could meet under one's roof without bloodshed. I don't think it was meant to develop saintly forbearance. |
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