Look at it this way....
Lets use our level 44 Blaster named "Bob". Bob is arrogant, mean spirited, and thinks he can beat anyone out there. To prove this piont, Bob has taken upon himself to pick on little lower level characters, just to prove that he is better than them. Bob will also put on his "Freinds" list the names of those special players, that whenever he see's them on, he will hunt them down, and destroy them, over and over again. Why ? Because Bob is a bad man, and that is his way of having fun.
Now, enter "Sally". Sally is a level 3 Blaster. She just wants to play, and have fun. Sally has seen her freind, Carla become the torment of Bob's anger, and she is tired of this. Since she has no way of stopping Bob, she quits the game, and so does Carla.
But......if you allow Sally, to be able to hit Bob, then doess that make it a better fight ? In this instance it seems so.
But lets take a look at it another way. What if Sally decides to create 5 characters, all level 2's, and so does Carla. That way, Bob can never tell who he is angry with this day, and he cannot keep adding dozens and dozens of people to his freinds list, just to pick on them over, and over again. Sally will come on with a new character, and so will Carla. Bob will not know who it is, and thus Bob will die, since Sally and Carla will go after Bob, over and over again.
What I am trying to get at, is that you cannot make it so a level 2 will have any chance to hit a level 44. That level 44, whatever vice he has with the world, has earned his right at that level. If this was the case, then I would just create a character, every two days, to go with 12 of my freinds on Team Speak, to hunt down any level 40's that are just hanging around. And thus, those level 40's will be upset that a "Noob" would even think of starting a fight with them, and hunt us down. But I would come back with a different character, and start all over again.
You earn your right at leveling, you get stronger, faster, and more powerful. That is the advantage of leveling up. Not to become the target of a level 2's gusto of "David and Golioth". If that level 2 cannot hit the level 44.......well, then dont pick a fight with them. If the level 44 starts to hunt down level 2's.....then petition against that level 44. I am pretty sure after a few petitions, the higher level characters, if they are smart, will stop picking on lewer level characters, because they think it is "Fun".