>I honestly don't understand how you can live in India and expect shit like this not to happen. People in India don't even have the reasonable expectation of riding a public bus without getting raped to death, how cold you possibly expect the authorities to care about counterfeit books?
I'm quite disgusted to see this poor comment. I don't understand how it is adding to the topic at hand. You went from a re-printed book with an error to rape and politics in the country of the author. The article had nothing to do with either.
Even if India has the highest rape statistics in the world, that doesn't add any relevance to the point you are making, which basically boils down to: You don't have a reasonable expectation of riding a public bus without getting raped to death, therefor you should expect "shit" like outdated re-prints. What?
Rape statistics are not even clear enough to make the point that India has more cases of rape than the USA (due to differences in reporting rates and definitions of rape). Some experts estimate rape statistics to be about equal [1]. Homicide statistics are a lot clearer in both reporting and definition and there the USA "beats" India. [2]
>India is a beautiful place, with lots of brilliant, talented people, but until their local and federal governments start observing and enforcing the rule of law, it's going to remain one of the shittiest countries to live in.
Is that your final conclusion? That India is a shitty country to live in? To an article about an Indian re-print of Donald Knuth's book with an error in it?
If you had used this argument template for an American author, to drag American politics and crime rates into an unrelated topic, you'd be ridiculed and derided.
My point was that in India, the authorities don't preserve justice even when serious crimes have been committed, so its doubtful that they would care about things as insignificant as false-advertising.
If a society's legal system is demonstrably corrupt, the rest of the society is bound to follow.
You could argue that the same thing applies to the United States, and I would agree. Right now, however, I feel that the stage the U.S. justice system is in is that of the functional alcoholic. Its still working for the most part, but it could completely fall apart at any time.
>Is that your final conclusion?
Yes. It is a shitty place to live, unless you come from a privileged family. It obviously doesn't have to be, and it might not always be but as of today, it is. If you took a hundred random people and asked them which country they would rather live in(Out of the two), probably at least 75 (And this is generous) would say the United States, even though we are in the middle of a downward spiral. If you asked them which country they would rather live in as a lower-middle class citizen, only an imbecile (or perhaps someone with family in India) would choose to live in India.
The United States botches rape trials on a regular basis, but still, in spite of our own corrupt system, it's significantly better than what's going on in India. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that you are correct, and that the per-capita rape statistics are similar. However, in the United States, you have a much better chance of bringing the perpetrator to justice.
I'm quite disgusted to see this poor comment. I don't understand how it is adding to the topic at hand. You went from a re-printed book with an error to rape and politics in the country of the author. The article had nothing to do with either.
Even if India has the highest rape statistics in the world, that doesn't add any relevance to the point you are making, which basically boils down to: You don't have a reasonable expectation of riding a public bus without getting raped to death, therefor you should expect "shit" like outdated re-prints. What?
Rape statistics are not even clear enough to make the point that India has more cases of rape than the USA (due to differences in reporting rates and definitions of rape). Some experts estimate rape statistics to be about equal [1]. Homicide statistics are a lot clearer in both reporting and definition and there the USA "beats" India. [2]
>India is a beautiful place, with lots of brilliant, talented people, but until their local and federal governments start observing and enforcing the rule of law, it's going to remain one of the shittiest countries to live in.
Is that your final conclusion? That India is a shitty country to live in? To an article about an Indian re-print of Donald Knuth's book with an error in it?
If you had used this argument template for an American author, to drag American politics and crime rates into an unrelated topic, you'd be ridiculed and derided.
[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/01/02/are-women-safe... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...