Here is the situation

Person one is given a place to live by person two who owns the home.  Person two has a strict diet.  Person one eats a varied diet.  Person two one day says "If you want to live here, you can no longer put foods that tempt me in the kitchen."

Person one obliges for a time.  Time passes and person two of his own volition begins bringing the very foods he told person one not to bring.

Person two sees hypocrisy and resolves to keep his varied diet on hand in the kitchen again, seeing that person two is not abiding by his own rule.

Person two nevertheless insists person one abide by it, and say "If you don't like it find somewhere else to live."


I realize person two is the owner of the home, but eschatologically speaking, does person two have a moral right to make such a demand on those specific terms?

Does person one have a moral obligation to obey person two's hypocritical demand?


Citations from Scripture, the Fathers and especially St. Thomas would be appreciated.

Well if I was to rephrase this, it would go something like this:

Person two allows person one to live in his home in order to treat person one like a doormat (perhaps not consciously). Person one is initially unaware of this, but is later surprised he is being treated as a doormat.

The solution for person one is to refuse to be treated as a doormat and say something about it. The solution for person two is to chill and get a bit of humility, get off his high horse and learn some common charity.

Both lack humility: person one underestimates his worth, and person two overestimates his worth.