Maybe, maybe not
I hate people who look down their noses at you, trying to make others feel that they are superior because they are pretty, or because their parents worked their butts off to give them an economic advantage, which means that they didn't earn this, they were born into it, by luck perhaps. Those people who look down their noses making you feel down here while they are up in the clouds are living in a delusion. It's sad and I guess hating them is wrong, but after a while, you tend to get fed-up or even resentful. They need to have "Clicks" of people reminding them of how special they are. If they got the opportunity (and I say opportunity on purpose) to, for one day be in the life... to actually know the emotions of a person with less fortunate circumstances they might not float so high in delusion. They may just feel compassion for those folks, and I don't mean working at a food bank or some other event that lets you help for a couple of hours a week or month, I mean try being the person who wasn't nominated for Homecoming Queen or had to wear hand-me-downs, or even being the person who has to stand in line at a food bank. I wonder how it would change their opinion of others. Would they still look down their noses, maybe, maybe not?
I hate people who take advantage of other people, you know to find someone either down on their luck or maybe emotionally unbalanced. They are evil-mongers who need to be in control of others to make themselves feel powerful. I wonder what happened to these people to make them feel this need. And I wonder if these people have any heart left in them at all, it's sad really, but there had to be a point where they decided to be this way. I mean if you did something you knew was wrong or even if other people told you it was wrong, and you reflected on it, then did it again, you have made a choice. The choice to batter, humiliate or steal from (physically or emotionally) is wrong and hurtful. It, to me, puts you in the same class of people who like to look down on others, maybe at a higher level, maybe not.
I hate it when I do stupid things to people I love, I am not perfect by any means, but acting out in a selfish manner is not only belittling to those you've hurt but humiliating for you. I have many regrets in life and will probably have many more, I pray that I learn from these mistakes. I cringe at the thought of being like people who look down their noses and people who take advantage, but I am different? The only thing I can hope for is to be aware of these flaws and work at not doing them anymore.
Maybe that is the difference, maybe not.