the future of health care in india lies in traditional knowledge

First, I will go over what I see as my burden for this debate. My opponent can tell me if I have missed the spirit of the debate. I will be arguing that traditional healthcare would lead to a better future for india than modern healthcare. Again, please inform me if I have missed the point here. Anyway, I will get on with my argument now. 1. Modern/western healthcare takes more to maintain than traditional healthcare does. More money, more technical knowledge [that isn't currently widely available in India], more man-hours. There are much better things for the Indian people to put their money, time, and man-hours on. But this is something I will have to prove in my other points. 2. Western healthcare keeps more people alive than traditional healthcare. This point by itself likely does not convince you of anything, at least nothing I would want to convince you of. However, I will use it as the basis for some other points. 3. Better healthcare builds a reliance on better healthcare. This may not seem apparent at first, or to those lacking knowledge of natural selection and how it works. I'll split this point into sub-points to explain it. 3a. With better healthcare, people who generally have bad health have a better chance of surviving. [Kind of the same thing as point #2] 3b. Since people who generally have bad health are able to survive more often with good healthcare, more people in the population will have generally bad health, and therefore the population will be more in need of good healthcare. So what does the more primitive traditional healthcare do? It ensures that those with bad health are not as fit to survive, and therefore are less likely to pass on their genes to the next generation. This leads to a population that is generally healthy - a population that doesn't need modern healthcare. 4. Less people is good right now. Less people means less greenhouse gases put into the atmosphere. It means we don't need quite as many plants to fulfill our Oxygen needs. It means more space per person. More resources per person. We do not need more people right now. Especially in third-world countries, where the average IQ is much lower than it is in the first world. Take a look at this bad boy: http://en.wikipedia.org... The average IQ in India is estimated at 81. This is because most of the smart people leave the country [brain drain]. Better healthcare in India means more ~81 IQ people for the world. Yay. I think I'll pass. Keep in mind that 70-79 is "Borderline mental retardation," and 81 isn't much higher than that. Generally not the kind of people whose number we should seek to increase. http://en.wikipedia.org... [It's on the right side] More people in India is bad, and as we learned in point #2, western healthcare allows more people to survive. I believe that is enough for now. I will go over what I have shown. Western healthcare is nothing if not harmful for the future of India. The more-effective healthcare would end up making India's inhabitants less able to withstand disease on their own. Rather than simply dying due to primitive healthcare, the unhealthy would be able to thrive and interbreed, thereby lowering the healthiness of the nation, and creating a reliance on premium healthcare. Also, western healthcare requires a huge investment. Whereas traditional healthcare does not. India would need access to new information, it would need more able-brained people to be doctors, etc, [which it is short on due to brain drain], it would need more money and time to run, etc. Lastly, western healthcare raises the population barrier. India is already overpopulated, with 1.13 BILLION people. The US has a little over 300,000,000 people. And the US is about 3 times as large as India. Let's compare the two: US Area: 9.63 million sq km. India Area: 3.29 million sq km. As you see, India is about 1/3 as large as the US. US Population: 304,678,000 people India Population: 1,135,779,500 people Wow! Let's see how much area there is per person for each country. US: ~31607 sq meters per person. India: ~2896 sq meters per person. So here in the US we have more than 10 times the amount of space per person than they do in India. The last thing India needs is a bigger population. Better healthcare would only raise India's population. http://en.wikipedia.org... http://en.wikipedia.org... The less people able to survive in India, the better. It's the most overpopulated country, not to mention the low average IQ of its inhabitants. Quality over quantity. We should let them compete in the harshest circumstances possible [as to maximize natural selection]. They need it more than anyone else. It's definitely what's best for India's future.