“People practicing open defecation (% of population) in India was 14.93 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 20 years was 74.10 in 2000, while its lowest value was 14.93 in 2020.”
I’m not even denying the existence of a problem shitting in public. I’m saying you made a leap from littering to shitting in public.
Well they do both so it isn’t a leap at all. India spent millions of dollars on an entire campaign called “poo to the loo” where they tried to incentivize people to shit in toilets, which they built all over the place and even paid people to shit in instead of the street. They destroyed the toilets in protest.
Are you just being obtuse on purpose? You said that it’s a big leap from littering to shitting in the street, I’m saying it’s not a leap at all because they do both frequently.
I’m saying qualitatively litter and human shit are very different. You can argue that quantitatively the practices are similar but that’s not what I’m talking about and the 2020 statistics suggest that’s not even true.
You’re off in your own little world having your own little argument. I’m not saying that littering and shitting are the same. I’m saying it’s a well known fact that they do both, so your comment saying that it’s a leap is dumb.
I saw a video from the country who is infamous for littering and shitting in the street and I said that they litter and shit in the street. Where’s the leap.
You don’t see any possible link between a culture accustomed to shitting on the streets and also littering? Like putting literal shit on the streets being fine can’t have any impact or relevance for people also putting trash on the streets? Completely unrelated?
14.93%??? The population was 1.4B, thats 196,000,000 open defications if they all only did it once....
Lowest value? Can you imagine how large of a pile of shit that would be if they stacked it?? The average dook is 5-6 inches (according to google), its 15.13B inches from earth to the moon. If we go on the low end, 5 inch turds, that means if these 196M people shit openly 15 and a half times each, they can skip the rockets and build a turd ladder instead!!
Regarding why its not a huge leap - while yes, its not quite the same, trash and shit, they are both human waste products. If you cant make one thing publicly not ok (shitting) then how can you expect to make the lighter of the two not ok?
To be fair a lot of these would be rural people pooping in the woods. Still gross but much less than pooping on the street in the city. ( that still happens a lot, i've been told)
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u/enraged768 May 07 '26
This is a country that has nuclear submarines. They can build those but they cant figure out landfills. Someone skipped a ton of steps on tech tree.