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No, you really need to stop restorting to ad hominem responses and face the cold, hard truth. It is a fact that nearly 50% of children in India suffer from malnutrition. It is a fact that malnutrition is a condition that is universally accepted within the scientific community to cause lifelong physical and mental deformity. This has nothing to do with race. It could happen in any country, to any ethnicity.


Taking umbrage at your statement that all Indians are mentally and physically deformed is not an 'ad hominem' response. Seriously, think about the extension of what you said - it would mean that every Indian national is physically or mentally deformed. You've pegged it back to 50% with this comment, but even then, is your mythical scouting network really going to be looking at malnourished children?

Then you compound it by wanting to be given a pat on the back because you're willing to save a mere handful if they happen to perform well. It's like saying that blacks in the US don't have to worry about poverty so much because there's the NFL to save some of them.

Also, "It is a fact that -foo- is universally accepted within the scientific community" is an 'appeal to authority' fallacy. Besides, malnutrition comes in a range of degrees - it is not synonymous with kwashiorkor or marasmus, not among the scientists you claim as your authority. Hence, it also refers to the diet of obese Americans (and there's also mild undernutrition as well). Given that the obesity rate in the US is climbing towards 30%, it's not so much of a gain to go from a culture with 50% to a 30% malnutrition rate.




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