Hoffer wrote the following: “The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness whenever they find it. Woe to the weak when they are preyed upon by the weak! The self-hatred of the weak is likewise an instance of their hatred of weakness.” What is Creator’s perspective?

This description contains truisms that are also recognized as a fundamental principle of human psychology in the form of projection where one assumes one’s enemy to be like the self and is hated for it. Because one sees the weakness in their opponent and fears and loathes their own weakness, that feeling of vulnerability creates great inner fear they will not be successful, they will be shunned themselves, and ultimately will fail because of that inner weakness. So what is described here of the weak seeking power over others who are weak is very much a base instinct for survival and a kind of desperation to gain something for themselves, and seeing in the weak individuals around them a vulnerable victim and wanting them out of the picture because they represent an unpleasant reminder of their own failings—they may well do so with relish. We see that as depraved conduct because it is never in divine alignment to kill or to harm others and is certainly not excused if it is of benefit to the self, that is simply a further failing in adding greed, selfishness, and a lust for power onto the transgressions being committed that will always be redressed through the Law of Karma returning to the perpetrator the harm they have caused others, and it will be visited on them. The answer for weakness is not attacking it when it is discovered in others, but self‑empowerment, and this can be achieved while raising up others who are weak. This is a basic irony about the workings of love, in what seems at first blush a kind of weakness because one is admitting fondness and gentle and kind thoughts of attraction and acceptance for another, often accompanied by a willingness to give unreservedly and perhaps even put oneself in harm’s way in service to the love object. For the psychopath who only lives through power and control over others, it is the height of folly to love and care about others. To judge others and to seek their harm is a major karmic mistake because it will always backfire and bring misery eventually, when that negativity returns to the perpetrator. Finding a way to raise up the self with no harm to others brings with it great inner strength as well as a reawakening of an awareness of one’s self-worth and value in existing in the first place. Many who are weak question their own existence and feel unworthy even to be alive because they are so constrained by their fears, and oftentimes, because of their surrender to their seeming plight, encourage others to look down on them, and that can escalate to severe harm or even their elimination. Many acts of genocide grow from these kinds of perspectives and in the wrong hands can be devastating as a misguided solution to perceived inferiority by those with an intolerance for its very existence, and that is the ultimate example of what you relate here being described. Those who turn to genocide have a fatal weakness within themselves, an inability to love, to value and cherish life itself, or see any worth in others in the same way. They only have the self and will doubt its own value because they have no means of appreciating their existence unless they have arranged a way to have some kind of power they feel will reflect positively on themselves to gain status and self-acceptance, if not ready acceptance by others, unless they are on the good side of the perpetrator and can seek shelter under their leadership. The fact that weakness may seek its own destruction is a powerful reason and incentive to use your soul journey wisely, to learn and grow and empower yourself to become ever stronger in seeking divine alignment and maintaining that. If you are in the flow of divine love, you can even become invulnerable—that is the true power of love, not a weakness but a tremendous strength. The cardinal characteristic of the weak, who see the weakness in others and are repulsed by it, is that love is weak within them. That is why they cannot find more to like about themselves and fall into the trap of the perpetrator, that somehow harming others who are also perceived as having similar failings, can give them a seeming reward in the form of exercising that power and control, but it is a false god and a slippery slope to depravity that will harm them in the end.