>The thing that always struck me most about that passage is the determination to fulfill the lust even after being struck blind and being undeterred and persist

>The thing that always struck me most about that passage is the determination to fulfill the lust even after being struck blind and being undeterred and persisting in groping for doorknobs and looking for a way in to Lot's home. If that's an accurate representation I can't imagine how anything other than getting my eyesight back or figuring out what happened to it would not be one's top priority in that moment. It may be a figurative use of the word blind though, like a mirage, or some other confusion ploy, or a mental fog to obscure the entrance somehow. Maybe you could look at it under the optics that modern people think their freedom to say "merry christmas" is under attack. Why not think that even if it's totally absurd, people would be morally outraged and believe that people would ignore their blindess overtaken by lust and the wish to rape.