There is also the pariah-factor. When a groups social status is low enough, members of the group will be attacked for belonging to the group. If status goes lower, attacks increase.

Disabled loosing what rights there was is a clear sign of loosing status, so there should be no surprise that attacks are up.

Pack animals do have some really ugly sides.

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