Comment by ClumsyPilot
2 years ago
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.
You don’t need authoritarianism to have clean public facilities. Americans truly have a learned helplessness about what is achievable in this world.
I'm European mate. I haven't been to a single country over here that consistently (let's say 50%+ chance) had clean public bathrooms.
Singapore on the other hand was close to 100%.
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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.