Is India the most virtuous country?

[Bharatvarsh2]

First off, India is obviously not the most comfortable country to live in. Some folks there in villages don't even have access to clean water. However, if we compare per capita carbon emission rates as well as per capita consumption rates, India is among the lowest in the world. The country with the maximum percentage of lacto-vegetarians is also India, so much more virtuous than the atrocities of China and the US on killing animals for their food.



A Hindu here will probably say that since India lets others use the world's resources and suffers herself the plight made by the greed of the rest of the world instead of fighting it out ruthlessly and stealing it away, it is among the most virtuous countries there is -- or at least that its citizens are some of the most virtuous men around (in terms of progress/harm caused to the rest of the world at the cost of one's own trouble/flourishing).

1) A counter point is that India has a very skewed sex ratio because people abort girls especially in the Northern states. Many Hindu texts very explicitly condemn abortion (bhrUNa-vadha/hatyA) as being on par with murder and only recommend it if the mother's life is under threat. The communities with the worst sex ratio according to the last census were Sikhs followed by Jains and the worst offending states were Panjab and Haryana. Much more lacto-vegetarian than the Southern states and Jains are highly vegetarian, but I remain unconvinced that jhatka'ing and eating a goat or a chicken is worse than murdering your own flesh and blood. This is done in China and the West (though not sex selective) but remember that China has a one child policy and neither of them are claiming any virtue because a substantial % of population is vegetarian. I have a Koli friend from Gujarat, they eat meat, the guy knew some gujju "brahmin" and his wife, the wife was veggie. Anyways one day the two women are talking when the veggie wife hints at aborting their next daughter (they have one) and my friends wife is shocked, so the other one changes the topic.



2)Or we could also say that they are some of the most spineless men around and that is why they don't fight ruthlessly.



3)A virtuous citizenry cares about their fellow men but hardly any Indians could be bothered about what happened to Hindus in Kashmir which is why many still languish in refugee camps.



Also I doubt India is over 80% Hindu, would be lucky to have it at 74% if you account for all the crypto-xtians and the increasing Muslim population through demographic warfare.



Another thing is India is far from the most densely populated country in the world, unless you mean compared to China and US but worldwide even Israel has a higher density than India and their land is mostly arid desert.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sov...on_density



India is at # 32.