That was another beautiful piece MiddlePath, and I always enjoy reading your threads with these type of lessons. After reading this one, I was thinking along the lines of what it must feel like for a tzaddik who would be living among a group of rashaim, knowing that he would be punished along with the whole city.
My son came home the other day from school somewhat distraught, explaining that his class was punished that day because MOST of the boys misbehaved terribly, and he didn’t, yet he was punished along with the whole group.
Although on a greater scale of punishment of course, Avrohom felt and hurt so terribly for the “innocent” citizens, who didn’t deserve to be destroyed, exactly how I felt for my son who was punished undesrvedly.