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"The 'average' person seems pretty reasonable and simple: they say, 'What's mine is mine, what's yours is yours.'
"The mindset 'what's mine is mine, what's yours is yours' can be seen as a reasonable, even as a healthy way to see the world. The phrase 'good boundaries' comes to mind.
"Then the rabbis toss in a grenade: 'And there are some who say that is the temperament of Sodom.' Wait - what?
"The rabbis' understanding of the people of Sodom was that they were a deeply selfish, inhospitable people. Unlike the Christian commentaries on the story of Sodom, which focus on sexual sins, rabbinic commentaries on Sodom focus on the way the people of Sodom treated visitors and poor people."
-- Rabbi Ruth Adar (CoffeeShopRabbi), 2018-09-28
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Yes. I'm not sure why Christian interpretations fixate on homosexuality while missing the whole rape aspect, like it would have been ok for the mob to take the daughters?
The crime of S'dom, from the sources I'm familiar with and my own reasoning based on them, is abuse of other people. They weren't just inhospitable to visitors; they were actively cruel according to the midrash, and from the plain text we get that rape, and giving up one's daughters for rape, was apparently perfectly normal. The people of S'dom treated other people like crap, enough so that people's pleas moved God to act. That is the core problem from which all their others derived.
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And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’ Robert Frost, "Mending Wall"