Why do all low profile tires have to be of high performance design?

[grampi]

Originally Posted by blacksan

The inherit limitations of the short sidewall design is my guess.

Someone else mentioned the sidewall thing in a similar discussion in another forum and said the shorter siewall needs to be stiffer. I guess my counter to that is; isn't the shorter sidewall stiffer than a higher profile tire simply by virtue of being shorter? Why the need to make it even stiffer still? Just seems like overkill to me.