Because it flies in the face of the Puritan ethic, so subsumed in Muricans' psyche: it is plain fucking Wrong on the face of it AND.. both the religiously-persuaded and the others: can see it in their scriptures or any other guides to umm 'decency' (?)
When injustice becomes not merely overt but.. when pointed-out, gets a {shrug} then you Know that the surface fucked-upedness is just the sunburn atop the buried cancer.
Yup we (as presently constituted) are doomed - more certainly via the cube of the time taken to address this manifest deadness of conscience.
Pure ugly.
Ashton