Interestingly, I learned an important biblical principle from circumstances similar but much, much milder (thank God...) from these.
I had an acquaintance/friend who got hospitalized because the apt. complex he was in had black mold and the doctors said when he was being discharged, “under no circumstances are you to return to that apt.”. He called desperately looking for someplace to crash and I said, “sure... until you get better”.
Before I get to the point, one wrinkle. He was the sales person for the developer that built my house, that’s how I knew him. Also, (and ironically) he lived in the same horrible apt complex (extremely nice looking, run by evil ppl) I had previous to my house being built. So compassion seemed warranted. Dude came in and decided to do things his way in my house. After about 6 weeks I told him, “You are better time to go”. Now to be sure he has acquired properties to rent so he was more well off than I so it wasn’t harsh.
So here’s what I learned. In the parable of the good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37) the proper way to help is to be prepared and willing to help those in need, esp. exterme need. But nowhere in that parable did it say, “take the person home”. Not even an implication of such and that can even (unfortunately) extend to family. I also learned that reading the Bible and understanding the Bible sometimes takes experience in addition to the reading part.
So, I’m prepared to help like I did before but 14-21 days at a motel or some such. But in my home where I sleep?
No gonna happen...
Good points. Bad people have a way of finding and exploiting the same types. It’s why once a person has been mugged the chances of them being mugged again go way up. Evil people study who can be rolled, taken, killed...