ss wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 Dec 2008 7:34:41 pm Venkat Mangudi wrote:
>
>> ashok _ wrote:
>>
>>> Its more practical attempting to provide safe drinking water than have
>>> a security checkpoint to save a shopping mall or teach a policeman how
>>> to swim.
>>>
>> Fair enough. Agreed. But consider this, if all the people who need safe
>> drinking water are killed by anti social elements or war, what use would
>> the water be? Not that we are not entitled to safe drinking water. One
>> assumes that the people living in India (over a billion of them) are
>> actually able to find water to drink.
>>
>
> The point really is that since far more children die of malnutrition in India
> than of road accidents why bother trying to improve road safety until
> nutrition is improved.
>
> This argument in a word is stupidity and an attempt to change the subject and
> take the discussion on to a different line which is a fact in itself but has
> no bearing on the original discussion. In most discussions this would be
> plain trolling.
>
I was trying to make the same point. The discussion was about security
and not that of what India desperately needs. On those lines, one can
come up with a dozen more things that are sorely needed.
