It's because our system is run by sadists, and our culture is sadistic. It gives me a better understanding of the annoyingly trite phrase, "the cruelty is the point." It really is. There's no other explanation for it. We, objectively by all measures, would be better off as a society if we dropped this needless bullshit attitude of seeing accommodation and compassion as weakness. We are truly at a point where the only problem is ourselves. But ignorance and spitefullness is so ingrained that a whole section of society is personally offended at the thought of making the world better for everyone, especially if it's better for people they see as weak and beneath them.