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.

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%.

Excuse me, I am a European and Czechia consistently has clean public bathrooms and baby changing rooms!

And we have human rights, and so does India

Why do you need to come up with wild excuses?

western-est west has decided they can’t be bothered to deal with some issues, like hygene, or, in case of UK, human waste in rivers

Comparing Indian culture to US is like comparing auto parts to aircraft parts, there's no point in continuing the discussion.