Fifteen members of Mrs Glass's family successfully struggled to resuscitate David last October as he lay close to death in St Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth. Police had to be called to the hospital amid acrimonious scenes. David, who recovered from his October crisis and returned home, was diagnosed at birth as having hydrocephalus. It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts.
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.