Comment by ClumsyPilot
2 years ago
> streets of San Francisco smell a LOOOT better
What happened to all the public toilets in US/UK? I remember there being many more, am I hallucinating this?
Many 2nd world countries still have them, for good reason!
People defile them, use them for shelters, or drug ingestion stations. There's no innovative way to solve homelessness. It's an insidious problem that defies any method to redress. Any angle you try to approach it from will be abused or defeated in some way.
I am sorry but I don’t think you realise how ridiculous this sounds to someone not from the west.
See, while India is building public toilets and becoming more civilised, we, with this attitude, are moving in the opposite direction.
If we can manage to maintain a toilet in Russia and India, 1st world countries somehow cannot - that’s just a statement of social distinction.
> use them for shelters, or drug ingestion stations
I mean yes, dealing with that is the basic responsibility of running a toilet
Well, you can either have human rights (non-authoritarian states who won't use the police to crack down on this behaviour) or clean public toilets. Of course Singapore for instance has the cleanest public toilets, but you can also pay a 2k fine for chewing gum.
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Comparing Indian culture to US is like comparing auto parts to aircraft parts, there's no point in continuing the discussion.